Jaron Lanier is a fruitcake—but I figure most participants here already knew that.
They may not; it takes a while for one to figure out that he really is a fruitcake—individual columns or essays tend to sound like perfectly respectable contrarianism. I first began reading his articles in Discover and it wasn’t until his ‘Digital Maoism’ essay that “he really is a nut!” occurred to me.
They may not; it takes a while for one to figure out that he really is a fruitcake—individual columns or essays tend to sound like perfectly respectable contrarianism. I first began reading his articles in Discover and it wasn’t until his ‘Digital Maoism’ essay that “he really is a nut!” occurred to me.