wealth and power are concentrated increasingly on those who have the big networks – the “siren server”, as Jaron Lanier, the new class of giant data centers in his book “Who owns the future?” lists. Have global operations giants like Google, Facebook, but also massive online stores, banks and insurance companies, the American computer scientist, long since taken care of a serious imbalance. Because they have discovered that the data provided free of charge by users are a lucrative commodity. The digitization have already changed the whole economy of sustainable perspective they could, then fear Lanier, destroy other industries and make sensitive especially the middle class. His solution to the problem is:. Anyone who creates value in Internet, should this be paid
designer of the digital world
Jaron Lanier is 54 years old and is considered one of the most important designers of the digital world. He teaches at the Berkeley University in California, working as a researcher for Microsoft Research, and was recognized for his inventions and developments with two honorary doctorates. His 2013 book published in Germany “Who owns the future?”, Recently won the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University, is undoubtedly one of the most important Internet-critical publications in recent years. Written by a man who has this instrumental with Internet developed in the course of a remarkable career.
Always mobile – always online
In 1960, Jaron Lanier was born in New York, as a child of two Holocaust survivor . Soon after, the family moved to Texas, in the vicinity of El Paso. Jaron went to school, learn to play piano, listening to Bach, liked the pictures of Hieronymus Bosch and liked to eat chocolate. When he was ten years old, his mother died at . a car accident, the boy was sick, went with his father to often and eventually found a special friend the astrophysicist Clyde Tombaugh -. had in 1930 discovered the planet Pluto – advised the 14-year-old who had just dropped out of school at New to visit Mexico State University mathematics and chemistry seminars. Jaron Lanier liked the idea, he went and was allowed to stay and learned to program.
Versatile
In 1983, he developed his first computer game with the beautiful name “Moondust”, which earned him a job at Atari. In between, he had studied in New York for a year and learned art always play new instruments over the years. Today Jaron Lanier has a collection of more than a thousand rare old musical instruments, he has played with Philip Glass, Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Ornette Coleman, film music composed and own paintings, drawings and installations in numerous museums in the USA and in Europe issued. ‘ / p>
mainframe computer
In California he met in the 1980s, Tom Zimmerman know. He had constructed one of the first virtual simulation gloves. With him and a few others founded Jaron Lanier in 1985, the company VPL Research. they wanted to develop further technologies for the virtual world still young. And they succeeded. Lanier constructed virtual cameras, advanced 3D graphics for movies, the first avatar and also drove the development of Internet-based networks ahead. A freak, a nerd, a pretty oblique genius with a penchant for overweight and shoulder-length rasta curls.
At some point, before Edward Snowden’s revelations, he realizes that no one can recognize where all the users information go and what happens to them. And that vain culture of the Internet destroyed entire industries.
” You are not the customer of the Internet companies. You are their product, “says Lanier in his book
Since then, Jaron Lanier is vehemently deal with the overwhelming power of the data and the apparent powerlessness of consumers. Its like hard-working example is Instagram, a free Photo and video sharing app. 2010, the company was founded with 13 employees and no business plan, and two years later it has Facebook for one billion U.S. dollars bought.
At the Frankfurt Book Fair but not warned . just before the data hoarding by Internet companies and intelligence agencies Lanier criticized the social network users who leave their data Internet giants such as Facebook and Google for free, contribute to ensuring that the wealth in the hands of a few billionaires concentrate The undermines democracy because…: “Knowledge is power.”
Excellent
On October 12, Jaron Lanier is in the Frankfurt St. Paul’s Church, this year’s Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Because of this pioneer of the digital world – “has recognized the risks this for the free lifestyle of each person harbors” – in the words of the jury. Forcefully as Jaron Lanier on the dangers that threaten our open society, if it is deprived of the power of design and if people would be reduced despite a gain of diversity and freedom, to digital categories.
The Peace Prize the German Book Trade is endowed with 25,000 euros, the laudatory speech Martin Schulz (SPD), the President of the European Parliament.
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