tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37079081.post5600365753220238569..comments2023-09-22T03:23:13.932-04:00Comments on What SIS faculty are reading: Vaidhyanathan and his book in progress on GoogleMartin Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15605774514148710902noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37079081.post-52897555629114212742007-10-25T12:32:00.000-04:002007-10-25T12:32:00.000-04:00I happened to read this item at about the same tim...I happened to read this item at about the same time that I read <A HREF="http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/10/vampires_of_the.php" REL="nofollow">this one</A> from Nicholas Carr's blog. <BR/><BR/>Carr writes:<BR/><BR/>"The business model of today's internet giants might best be called vampiric. Their overriding goal is to know us, to transfer into their databases the informational life-blood of our selves. Their thirst is insatiable. To survive, they must uncover ever more intimate details of our lives and desires. And we are not averse to the seduction. We embrace these companies, welcome them into our homes, because we desire the gifts they bear and the conveniences they provide. We tilt our necks to them freely.<BR/><BR/>"Yet somewhere, in the depths, stirs that mysterious sense of a "loss of selfness." We fear that we are slowly being emptied, that we are beginning to blur at the edges. Is it any wonder that vampires have begun to crowd our waking dreams?Martin Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605774514148710902noreply@blogger.com