Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
I don’t always agree with Jaron Lanier, but he has a way of really making you think. In this case he looks at the impacts of the digital economy (more specifically, negative ones), and how to fix them.
Jaron Lanier’s “Fixing the Digital Economy.”
It’s an interesting run-up as he looks at the huge data in the economy, and how some existing ideas might be cultivated to help maintain a middle class he fears is being crushed.
– Steven
I know a lot of you would really like to understand how the economic meltdown happened. Well, OK some of you, as we’re not all econogeeks like yours truly. It’s kind of hard to wrap your mind around everything that happened.
May I then recommend The Flaw which is available at Netflix? Weirdly it’s tag “what happens when the rich get richer” doesn’t really sum up the film’s scope, but I suppose it sells well.
It’s an interview-based documentary on the economic meltdown of 2008, told via interviewing people in the middle of it, analyzing it, and involved in it. Stringing together these interviews it creates a smart narrative – and does so without a lot of doomsaying and drama. It’s an oddly human take on a horrible occurrence, which is one of its strengths.
I’ve decried the lack of space opera – because it requires thinking big thoughts and often thinking of the future, it seems those traits aren’t in vogue.
I’ve recently read a brutal look at the plethora of startups that aren’t original. I had to agree.
I had a discussion with a friend who works in gaming that led to a series of bitter exchanges as we lamented rampant unoriginality.
We can look at economic and political discussions where the same thing is said over and over again. Most lately the dismal attempts at austerity that don’t seem to be solving things.
I would like to postulate that one of the problems in media, in economy, in economics and politics, is a lack of applied imagination.