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This just doesn't make any sense at all to me.

Jaron Lanier just released a book a couple months back called "Who owns the future?" and it is about the future of economy and money from an information scientist's perspective, as he puts it.

In the book's opening salvo,  he lectures the reader to the effect that 'If you read this book without paying for it, you're taking something and giving nothing in return'.  (It happened that I requested the local library order it;  They did).  He offers no mechanism by which payment can be provided.  Am I supposed to ring him up and give him my MC # over the phone?  Am I supposed to fart around with paypal ( a loathesome operation), spending hours and hours to see how I might pay him?

Now, bizarrely, he mentions in that book bitcoin only once!  (!!!) and this in a footnote.

I hereby invoke the 6 degrees of separation law, which starting from this forum should be 3 degrees at most.

Please see to it that Jaron gets the following message:


Jaron.  Good and Mighty Soul.  It is both mildly appalling, and mildly amusing to me as well, that someone such as myself, who would probably sort out at the 80th percentile on a measure of technophobes, to be asking to the skies, the gods of the aether, and the cyber-spheres:



"Jaron Lanier!  Where is your Bitcoin Address???"

I mean, some serious 'duh!' here mon!~

Serious duh!

The library paid for the book and you paid for the library.

Sorry.  That is a fatuous and juvenile response.  Do you have any idea of who Jaron Lanier IS?

It seems inconceivable to me that he would not be a supporter of bitcoin.

Try to look at it through Microsoft metaphysics- it would be an admittance that web 2.0 is far from pathetic so he wouldn't. On the other hand i'm sure he could start jerking off at the prospect of a world of bitcoin micropayments wherever we go.