Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet
جارون لانيير: نحن بحاجة لإعادة تشكيل الإنترنت
Jaron Lanier is a scientist, musician and writer best known for his work in virtual reality and his advocacy of humanism and sustainable economics in a digital context. Full bio
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I gave my first talk at TED,
أوّل خطابٍ لي في TED
very first public demonstrations
هنا على منصة TED.
that we were facing a knife-edge future
نواجه مستقبلاً ذو حدين
of our technology
we'd eventually destroy ourselves.
وبالتالي سندمر أنفسنا.
and nothing else.
that recognition of the possible darkness
a way to transcend it
with a rather horrifying line, which is,
a culture around technology
from committing mass suicide."
as being one and the same
infinitely creative future.
وجذّاب، ولا حدود له.
that that alternative of creativity
discovered language.
new depth, new meaning,
جديدة، ومعانٍ جديدة، وأبعاد جديدة
new ways to coordinate,
new ways to raise children,
we'd have this new thing
سيكون لدينا هذا الشيء
intentional dreaming.
making the thing you experienced
making symbols to refer to things.
عن الأشياء.
and it's one I still believe in,
of how it could also turn out.
حول ما الذي ستؤول إليه الأمور.
computer scientists,
from before I was even born,
حتى قبل أن أكون قد وُلدت،
he described the potential
that would be gathering data from people
to those people in real time
للمستخدمين في نفس الوقت
statistically, in a Skinner box,
في ما يسمى بصندوق سكنر
where he says,
as a thought experiment --
this isn't a quote --
on them all the time,
طوال الوقت
feedback based on what they did,
إلى الأنشطة التي قاموا بها
of behavior modification.
could not face its problems.
only a thought experiment,
هذه مجرد تجربة نظرية
is technologically infeasible.
للتطبيق من الناحية التقنية.
it's what we have created,
if we are to survive.
عليه اذا أردنا الصمود
a very particular mistake,
لوقتنا الحالي أيضاً
lefty, socialist mission about it,
واجتماعياً حول مهامها
that have been done,
must be purely public,
على الانترنت متاح للعامة بالكامل،
cannot afford it,
واحد لا يمكنه تحمل التكلفة،
this terrible inequity.
to deal with that.
you can have public libraries.
يمكنك الذهاب إلى المكتبة العامة،
this is an exception.
that's what we want.
للعامة، فهذا ما نريده.
like the Wikipedia, for instance,
مثل ويكيبيديا، على سبيل المثال،
that was completely incompatible,
we loved this Nietzschean myth
تزال تحكمنا حتى اليوم.
still has a hold on us, as well.
power of the tech entrepreneur.
لرواد الأعمال في هذا المجال.
when everything's free?
في حين أن كل شيء مجاني
one solution back then,
was born free, with ads,
مجانية لكن مع إعلانات.
your local dentist or something.
في منطقتك أو ما شابه ذلك.
more and more efficient and cheaper.
where people study them,
يدرس الطلاب هذه الأمور،
who use these systems
التي تستخدم هذه الأنظمة الحاسوبية
and got cleverer and cleverer.
advertising anymore.
had worried it might.
social networks anymore.
بالشبكات الاجتماعية بعد الآن.
امبراطوريات التعديل السلوكي.
I think it's one of these empires.
أن غوغل امبراطورية كتلك المذكورة.
of bad people who've done a bad thing.
سيئين قاموا بأعمال سيئة.
of a globally tragic,
just another layer of detail
mistake functions.
whether it's a rat or a dog or a person,
أكان فأراً أم كلباً أم إنساناً،
little punishments
it might be candy and electric shocks.
تعطيه حلوى أو صدمة كهربائية خفيفة.
it's symbolic punishment and reward.
ستكون رمزية.
just with the bell, just with the symbol.
سماع الجرس، أي بواسطة الرمز.
function as the punishment and reward.
والعقوبة الاجتماعية هي العقوبة.
the feeling of these things.
and it's being repeated."
على محتواي وهو الآن يتكرر."
"Oh my God, they don't like me,
is more popular, oh my God."
very common feelings,
that you get caught in this loop.
في تلك الحلقة المفرغة.
by many of the founders of the system,
of the methods of behaviorism,
of positive and negative stimuli.
الإيجابي والسلبي.
the academic world for a while,
is that whether positive stimuli
أكان المحفز الإيجابي
in different circumstances,
behavior modification empires
high-frequency traders.
from their spends
if they're not spending,
and then they do more of that.
more to the negative emotions,
أكثر للمشاعر السلبية،
that rise faster, right?
على المرء، أو ليس صحيحاً؟
even well-intentioned players
is advertising toothpaste
هو الإعلان عن معجون الأسنان
of the negative people,
amplified by the system.
to make the world suddenly nice
العالم جميلاً على حين غفلة
to ruin those things.
لأجل تدمير تلك الأمور.
we've gotten ourselves into.
with great difficulty,
للوراء، بمزيد من الصعوبة،
those who could afford to,
القادرين على الدفع
you'd pay for social networking.
ستدفع للشبكات الإجتماعية
Maybe with a subscription fee,
المصغر كما تستخدمونها.
and you're thinking,
for these things.
of something that just happened.
were formulating their free idea,
كانت تخطط فكرتهم المجانية،
also believed that in the future,
تعتقد ان مستقبلها مشابه
would be created in the same way,
قد أنشئت بنفس الطريقة،
like Netflix, Amazon, HBO,
We'll give you give you great TV."
سيعطونك برامج تلفاز جيدة.
called "peak TV," right?
أوليس صحيحاً؟
things get better.
تحصل على مواد أفضل.
of "peak social media."
وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي."
you can get really useful,
instead of cranks.
من الاحتيال الزائف.
to get factual information,
حول حقائق معينة،
paranoid conspiracy theories.
الغريبة والمثيرة للشك.
other possibility.
the Googles and the Facebooks,
to punish Silicon Valley.
on behavior modification and spying
على سلوك التعديل والتجسس
are fantastic.
endlessly with all of these companies,
الكلفة وبشكل لا نهاية له
because they're hooked.
just like their own users.
كما هو حال مستخدميهم.
a big corporation that way.
in the benefit of the shareholders
to figure it out.
can survive unless we fix this.
بدون حل هذه المشكلة.
wish to communicate,
is if it's financed by a third person
if the companies won't change,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jaron Lanier - Scientist, musician, visual artist, authorJaron Lanier is a scientist, musician and writer best known for his work in virtual reality and his advocacy of humanism and sustainable economics in a digital context.
Why you should listen
Jaron Lanier is interested in the idea that virtual reality might help us notice the magic of ordinary reality and the idea that paying people for the data that is now taken from them might be the best path to a sustainable, dignified future economy.
Lanier's 1980s start-up created the first commercial VR products and introduced avatars, multi-person virtual world experiences and prototypes of major VR applications such as surgical simulation. Lanier coined or popularized the terms "virtual reality" and "mixed reality." He recently released a new book, Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality. Both of his previous books, Who Owns the Future? and You Are Not a Gadget are international bestsellers. His most recent book (May 29, 2018) is entitled Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.
Lanier was a mainstay of the earliest TED conferences; he still thinks of TED as a charming little gathering.
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