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When the ARD has already finished their live broadcast of the peace award from the St. Paul Church, Jaron Lanier delighted the packed audience on site even with a small musical contribution. He plays on the khaen, a Laotian woodwind instrument, also had the day garnished with the Lanier previously at the Book Fair his performances concluded.
This has bizarre as ever the appearance of Lanier’s out of the scope of this ceremony together with their dress code falls: the long dreadlocks, the blue glasses with the yellow straps, the blue amulet that is difficult to Lanier’s black t-shirt and replaced him tie or bow tie
But, of course, Lanier wants with the khaen not. only demonstrate that he collects old musical instruments from around the world and also controls to play, but that it is worthwhile to preserve the old and cherish, especially in the face of new, digital technologies are changing the modern societies so fundamental and universal.
“The claim that ancient privileges must be thrown overboard – about privacy or the achievements of the labor movement – to make new technological efficiency space is grotesque,” Lanier says then in his acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Or: “We are constantly confronted with the contrasts of old and new, constantly we have to decide. But these decisions are bad decisions! The only ethical option is the synthesis of the best of the pre-digital and digital systems. “
There are sentences that can be signed easily, like so much of this speech, the Lanier this Sunday morning after holds the eulogy of the European Parliament President Martin Schulz and a greeting of Booksellers Association chief Heinrich Müller Rieth. With his acceptance speech Lanier proves once more as Internet critics as well as Always-yet-followers of the new technologies, as well loyal “digital activist”. For example, he speaks of “delighted” to be about the idea of ”one day there might be books that synchronize with virtual worlds”. And he believes that “digital cultural optimism” is sometimes quite appropriate – not least Lanier has a research position at Microsoft hold at the moment
Seine Techno orthodoxy had made just after the announcement of the peace prize to him for criticism.. Here, a computer developer would Award, Florian Cramer wrote in the “Mercury”, the “tried all his life to free computers and digital media from the dominance of the written language”; other allegations denominated, Lanier would want to offer for many digital problem areas only technical solutions, he was anything but a strong critic of digital capitalism.
Nevertheless, one may the Peace Prize to Lanier as a “political signal” understand as the deceased in June “FAZ” and Publisher of Lanier also mentioned (“he is missing us terribly”) Frank Schirrmacher has done: to someone who is practically grew up in Silicon Valley. The but it is not only happy, but highly skeptical looks in the digital spaces. And “bears witness to the time in which we live,” as it is called Riethmueller as one of the conditions for a peace prize winners, “the inhuman exhibits.”
is exactly what the 1960 as a child of two Holocaust survivor in New York-born Lanier? “Who owns the future” is in some passages of his speech that an extract of his book. He is an analyst and Mahner same time. Some presses Lanier also in Frankfurt verschwurbelt something from, sometimes it looks as if it would mainly just debating with his peers, as he would not get out of his digital prison. For example, he suggests, treat computer so, “as if they were less-than-human”. Or that the cyber technologists should at least pretend, “as they would believe in the human particularity, just to see how it feels.” This “new kind of humanism,” which feels Lanier committed acts somewhat blurred – or is just simply when he emphasizes the peculiarity of man that “people more than machines and algorithms” are
But his criticism of “Big Data” to data collectors such as Google and Facebook and their. not only economic, but their seemingly politics, society and culture-changing power is striking and lucid. His humanism is contoured as sharper: “The dream of a machine-centered future’s sake must be made anonymous and forget the real people. This trend is the importance of authorship shrink, but sooner or later also shrinks the economy as a whole, while the development only makes rich, which include the greatest spying machine. “
Each first positive network effect, every great App also what makes it a little less free, so Lanier continues – and “suddenly we have to put ourselves to be monitored to read an e-book! On what kind of a peculiar trade, we have let ourselves because “With such exclamations Jaron Lanier is of course exactly right, when tirelessly the online bookseller Amazon and its monopoly pursuit criticizing Börsenverein and his award – and there goes the end of each be playing on the khaen as representative of the writing and reading of a book, a printed book, mind you. Analog is great!
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