Storm on Nostr: Jaron Lanier was super formative for my thinking around Bitcoin (albeit indirectly) ...

Jaron Lanier was super formative for my thinking around Bitcoin (albeit indirectly) when I first saw that talk in 2018.

The man is a genius and a very unorthodox thinker in the realm of general internet UX and how that UX influences our lives in meatspace.

Not surprising given that he is the "godfather of VR." I would expect nothing but profound analysis about how our digital lives and interactions color our real world perceptions from someone with a moniker like that.

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Iconic talk by Jaron Lanier

Given in 2018, but you watch it and you realize he could be talking about the current moment and opportunity with nostr

“We cannot have a society in which if two people wish to communicate the only way that can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them”

Amen

“The alternative is to turn back the clock with great difficulty and remake that decision. Remaking it would mean two things. It would mean many people would actually pay for these things. You’d pay for search. You’d pay for social networking. How would you pay? Maybe with a subscription fee. Maybe with micropayments... If some of you are recoiling and saying: oh my god I would never pay for these things, how could you ever get anyone to pay? Well, companies like Netflix, Amazon, and HBO, said subscribe, and we’ll give you great TV. And it worked! Now we’re in peak TV. Sometimes when you pay for stuff things get better. We can imagine a hypothetical world of peak social media"

Amen

And, most powerfully:

“We have to create a culture around technology that is so beautiful, so meaningful, so deep, so endlessly creative, so filled with infinite potential that it draws us away from committing mass suicide”

Amen

https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake_the_internet