[framing] if I am not a gadget, why should I consider myself a computer?

Lanier’s book is a different way to tackle the subjects we’ve been discussing few weeks now.

I wonder, why should we assume ourselves to be computers simply because we work with them, specifically in regard to MIDI?

What did developers have in mind for the future of the internet in the 1980s? How close are we to that prediction?

Are there ways that they could have developed a “better” internet experience?

Tags: computers, development, MIDI