prophets of "digital Maoism."Lanier identified this process in the increasing number of 'meta' sites--Google, Wikipedia, news and blog aggregators Digg and Reddit, which aggregate from other aggregators, and, most notably, popurls.com, the supreme meta- site. 'We now are reading,' writes Lanier with wry dismay, 'what a collectivity algorithm derives from what other collectivity algo rithms derived from what collectives chose from what a population of mostly amateur writers wrote anonymously.'
In addition, says Lanier--in his 2010 book You Are Not a Gadget--the internet was destroying the creative middle class.
from Bryan Appleyard: from The Sunday Times: Tools for Conviviality?
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