Zadie Smith Quote
Lanier is interested in the ways in which people reduce themselves in order to make a computer’s description of them appear more accurate. Information systems, he writes, need to have information in order to run, but information underrepresents reality (my italics).....When a human being becomes a set of data on a Web site like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it's a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.
Zadie Smith
Lanier is interested in the ways in which people reduce themselves in order to make a computer’s description of them appear more accurate. Information systems, he writes, need to have information in order to run, but information underrepresents reality (my italics).....When a human being becomes a set of data on a Web site like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it's a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.