How comfortable are you with reading ideas you disagree with?
After posting a comment to the CBC Spark blog about an interview with Jaron Lanier , I looked up his book You are not a Gadget , and added it to my future reading list on eMusic . I can tell from the CBC and other interviews that I'm not going to agree with this person on some pretty key things. Take what I've written publicly and what I think about the following quote : Collectivists adore a computer operating system called LINUX, for instance, but it is really only one example of a descendant of a 1970s technology called UNIX. If it weren’t produced by a collective, there would be nothing remarkable about it at all. Meanwhile, the truly remarkable designs that couldn’t have existed 30 years ago, like the iPhone, all come out of "closed" shops where individuals create something and polish it before it is released to the public. Collectivists confuse ideology with achievement. In my mind, his first comment is like saying that democracy isn't remarkable because i