1. What does Lanier mean when he criticizes "meta-ness"?
2. Can you outline the opposition Lanier poses between digital maoism and the business improvements he suggests?
3. What do you think he means when he says that capitalism has become a search engine? (96)
4. What does he mean when he refers to the cloud and the lords and peasants of the cloud? (think about aggregators and free content)
5. What does Lanier mean when he refers to the "planet of the help desks?" (94).
6. What is Lanier's worry when he talks about crowds working for free? Does this suggest to you a serious economic concern? (is work paid? what is the financial model?)
7. Lanier ultimately values the individual voice more than the opinion of the crowd. Do you agree? If you agree, do you agree with his basic account of the ways the individual is devalued in open culture? Why or why not?
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