Jaron Lanier is one of a handful of thinkers who grok the Kurzweil concepts, yet maintain a healthy skepticism…

In this edge.org piece
Digital Maoism he talks about online collectivism, a la wikipedia and related sites. He explains that this is not like representative democracy or meritocracy, as all opinions, and all ideas carry equal weight, for bad or worse…

A couple of interesting articles, one on smiles + body language and the other on how to be charming or how to charm… It’s funny, now that I think about it, to be charming, is almost always positive, endearing, and attractive, while to charm, is sometimes derogatory, snake-like…