Framing #4

At one point Lanier writes about the issues that the music industry is having as we move from a world where the LP is the end product with a high-margin to a digital world where an mp3 with a low-margin is the main product.  He proceeds to give a few examples of how people can still make money at this point in time but he doesn’t think will continue to succeed.  Are there other ways that artists can make money in the digital world?  How will social networking affect this?

The Turing test is something that basically determines how close to representing humanity a machine is.  There are a lot of connotations that are associated with achieving this level of sentience.  Can a machine ever truly achieve sentience since it would have to be designed and programmed by man?

Lanier writes that strangeness and individuality are being removed from the internet as new structures and organizations are introduced.  Is it possible that we are not removing these things so much as creating entirely new outlets that don’t require strangeness and individuality to work correctly?  It is still possible to find places that are entirely unique on the internet just as easily as it is to find a news source that is almost completely without bias.  How is this different from the non digital realm where art is often something that is entirely individual yet articles from a newspaper, although written by different authors, often come from one, singular voice?