COLWRIT R4B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-11: Web 2.0, Digital Image, Open-Source Software
10 Nov 2016
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You are not a gadget, ch 9 - 11 notes. It"s as if culture froze just before it became digitally open, and all we can do now is mine the past like salvage picking over a garbage dumps (131) Summary: lanier wonders why generations of young, energetic, idealistic people would perceive intense value in creating derivatives of existing systems and programs. His expectations of art that would arise from the internet were quickly crushed because of the lack of original ideas. Although music is growing on the internet, they are mainly just reproductions of music from an earlier era. He does admit that there are new types of music in the current generation, but only on the basis of technicalities (there are only small, specific details that make them new ). He views these new music as more nostalgic than reaching . Shlock (cheap/inferior goods): only humans can make shlock. Discussion points: changing circumstances always used to inspire amazing.
