Flutterby™! : Jaron Lanier in Salon

A Twitter exchange has me reading Jaron Lanier interviewed in Salon Magazine on how the Internet destroyed the middle class. And, yeah, I think this was part of the lesson of A Farewell To Alms: Humans will reproduce to Malthusian limits. If you don't do it, your neighbors will. Any productivity gains are going to get lost in that population swell.

And we're in the process of replacing a whole lot of human labor with mechanization.

I'm going to wait for a little more to flow in about how insightful the book is before I read it, I never found Lanier foresightful in a useful way, but it matches with my current thinking of how productivity flows.