Light Bulb Moment
[PHOTO NOTE: Despite what the camera data says, this is a stack of three exposures at 1/60, 1/30, 1/20. Even the dynamic range of the D850 is not that good.]
Call this a bookmark shot when you're not having a bookmark. Next week I want to post a series on Industrialism and Post-Industrialism, so let this stand as a segue.
But... I do want to give you something to think about that is a real light bulb moment in relation to our social media practices.
Jaron Lanier - one of the founders of Virtual Reality - is a polymathic inventor, philosopher and writer. Since leaving Silicon Valley he has been warning people against the dangers of social media. This interview might be one of the most important you have listened to in a long time. Our future as real human beings (not inhabiting virtual reality space) might depend on these ideas. Remember the relaunch of FB as "Meta" a few weeks ago?
"How social media ruins your life." www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_Jq42Og7Q
“What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? The digital pioneer and visionary behind virtual reality has turned against the very culture he helped create”
www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/what-turned-jaron-lanie...
For those creative artists among you, here is Julia Bausenhardt and why she is quitting social media. www.youtube.com/watch?v=31yF8eJJ8z0
Her most telling argument - and one I am thinking about very seriously - is to ask ourselves why we are giving away so much of our artistic content for free (and as PRO users paying for the "privilege" - US$71.88 at the latest billing). The problem you see is that social media is so flooded with free artistic content that people see no more reason to buy it. Thus further impoverishing artists while social media companies make fortunes from the advertising revenue WE generate for them.
Time for us humans to seize back control from the algorithms and artificial intelligence. And now of course my chances of an Explore go from 0.00001 percent to actual zero. Good! You know what I think about that whole scam.
Light Bulb Moment
[PHOTO NOTE: Despite what the camera data says, this is a stack of three exposures at 1/60, 1/30, 1/20. Even the dynamic range of the D850 is not that good.]
Call this a bookmark shot when you're not having a bookmark. Next week I want to post a series on Industrialism and Post-Industrialism, so let this stand as a segue.
But... I do want to give you something to think about that is a real light bulb moment in relation to our social media practices.
Jaron Lanier - one of the founders of Virtual Reality - is a polymathic inventor, philosopher and writer. Since leaving Silicon Valley he has been warning people against the dangers of social media. This interview might be one of the most important you have listened to in a long time. Our future as real human beings (not inhabiting virtual reality space) might depend on these ideas. Remember the relaunch of FB as "Meta" a few weeks ago?
"How social media ruins your life." www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_Jq42Og7Q
“What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? The digital pioneer and visionary behind virtual reality has turned against the very culture he helped create”
www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/what-turned-jaron-lanie...
For those creative artists among you, here is Julia Bausenhardt and why she is quitting social media. www.youtube.com/watch?v=31yF8eJJ8z0
Her most telling argument - and one I am thinking about very seriously - is to ask ourselves why we are giving away so much of our artistic content for free (and as PRO users paying for the "privilege" - US$71.88 at the latest billing). The problem you see is that social media is so flooded with free artistic content that people see no more reason to buy it. Thus further impoverishing artists while social media companies make fortunes from the advertising revenue WE generate for them.
Time for us humans to seize back control from the algorithms and artificial intelligence. And now of course my chances of an Explore go from 0.00001 percent to actual zero. Good! You know what I think about that whole scam.