Comments on: Book Review: Digital Barbarism by Mark Helprin http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sun, 27 May 2012 20:03:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Coping with Information Overload: Thoughts on Hamlet’s BlackBerry by William Powers http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/comment-page-1/#comment-70396 Coping with Information Overload: Thoughts on Hamlet’s BlackBerry by William Powers Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:44:24 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=18689#comment-70396 <p>[...] overload, and my reviews of related books on this subject by Carr, Lanier, Siegel, Keen, Helprin, Baron, and [...]</p> [...] overload, and my reviews of related books on this subject by Carr, Lanier, Siegel, Keen, Helprin, Baron, and [...]

]]> By: The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/comment-page-1/#comment-68327 The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:38:51 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=18689#comment-68327 <p><strong>Book Review: Nicholas Carr's The Shallows...</strong></p> <p>Last Friday afternoon, as I was leaving my house to en route to the airport with the family for a short vacation, Nicholas Carr's latest book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, arrived in my mailbox.......</p> Book Review: Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows…

Last Friday afternoon, as I was leaving my house to en route to the airport with the family for a short vacation, Nicholas Carr’s latest book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, arrived in my mailbox…….

]]> By: Book Review: Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/comment-page-1/#comment-68325 Book Review: Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:22:22 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=18689#comment-68325 <p>[...] other pessimists out there. At the far extreme on that pessimistic spectrum you find Lee Siegel and Mark Helprin, and to some extent Andrew Keen on his grumpier days. Jaron Lanier can get pretty grumpy, too, but [...]</p> [...] other pessimists out there. At the far extreme on that pessimistic spectrum you find Lee Siegel and Mark Helprin, and to some extent Andrew Keen on his grumpier days. Jaron Lanier can get pretty grumpy, too, but [...]

]]> By: The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/comment-page-1/#comment-67564 The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:35:32 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=18689#comment-67564 <p><strong>Kakutani 's Look at Internet Optimists & Pessimists...</strong></p> <p>Michiko Kakutani has a very interesting essay in the New York Times entitled, "Texts Without Contexts," which does a nice job running through the differences between Internet optimists and pessimists, a topic I've spent a great deal of time writing....</p> Kakutani ‘s Look at Internet Optimists & Pessimists…

Michiko Kakutani has a very interesting essay in the New York Times entitled, “Texts Without Contexts,” which does a nice job running through the differences between Internet optimists and pessimists, a topic I’ve spent a great deal of time writing….

]]> By: The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/comment-page-1/#comment-66679 The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:50:11 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=18689#comment-66679 <p><strong>book review: Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget...</strong></p> <p>Of the many tech policy-related books I've read in recent years, I can't recall ever being quite so torn over one of them as much as I have been about Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. There......</p> book review: Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget…

Of the many tech policy-related books I’ve read in recent years, I can’t recall ever being quite so torn over one of them as much as I have been about Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. There……

]]> By: book review: Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/comment-page-1/#comment-66676 book review: Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:41:06 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=18689#comment-66676 <p>[...] and it’s strange that Lanier doesn’t bother mentioning any of them. Neil Postman, Mark Helprin, Andrew Keen, and Lee Siegel have all railed against the online “mob mentality” and [...]</p> [...] and it’s strange that Lanier doesn’t bother mentioning any of them. Neil Postman, Mark Helprin, Andrew Keen, and Lee Siegel have all railed against the online “mob mentality” and [...]

]]> By: The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/comment-page-1/#comment-60855 The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:28:13 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=18689#comment-60855 <p><strong>Can Humans Cope with Information Overload? Tyler Cowen & John Freeman Join the Debate...</strong></p> <p>I recently finished Tyler Cowen's latest book, Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World. Like everything he writes, this book is worth reading and it will be of interest to those who follow technology policy......</p> Can Humans Cope with Information Overload? Tyler Cowen & John Freeman Join the Debate…

I recently finished Tyler Cowen’s latest book, Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World. Like everything he writes, this book is worth reading and it will be of interest to those who follow technology policy……

]]> By: husnain http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/comment-page-1/#comment-64977 husnain Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:34:15 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=18689#comment-64977 <p>"They have great topics like this one on <a href="http://www.energytalkradio.com" rel="nofollow">www.energytalkradio.com</a> and donate 30% to charity! Check them out."</p> “They have great topics like this one on http://www.energytalkradio.com and donate 30% to charity! Check them out.”

]]> By: husnain http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/comment-page-1/#comment-61526 husnain Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:34:15 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=18689#comment-61526 <p>"They have great topics like this one on <a href="http://www.energytalkradio.com" rel="nofollow">www.energytalkradio.com</a> and donate 30% to charity! Check them out."</p> “They have great topics like this one on http://www.energytalkradio.com and donate 30% to charity! Check them out.”

]]> By: husnain http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/comment-page-1/#comment-60721 husnain Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:34:15 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=18689#comment-60721 <p>"They have great topics like this one on <a href="http://www.energytalkradio.com" rel="nofollow">www.energytalkradio.com</a> and donate 30% to charity! Check them out."</p> “They have great topics like this one on http://www.energytalkradio.com and donate 30% to charity! Check them out.”

]]> By: Michael Masnick http://techliberation.com/2009/08/02/book-review-digital-barbarism-by-mark-helprin/comment-page-1/#comment-60250 Michael Masnick Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:42:19 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=18689#comment-60250 <p>It's also worth pointing out that he took many of the quotes he used to trash people out of context: <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090521/0313424957.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090521/03134...</a><br><br>A bunch were chosen selectively out of the comments on Techdirt, where he simply chose the worst of the worst to make his point, but seemed to totally miss satire humor.<br><br>Oh yeah, also there's the whole problem that Mozart and Raphael's works were both produced without copyright protection (oops), and Einstein's works had nothing to do with copyright.<br><br>It seemed to me like Helprin made every single mistake (and worse) that he singled others out for.</p> It's also worth pointing out that he took many of the quotes he used to trash people out of context: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090521/03134…

A bunch were chosen selectively out of the comments on Techdirt, where he simply chose the worst of the worst to make his point, but seemed to totally miss satire humor.

Oh yeah, also there's the whole problem that Mozart and Raphael's works were both produced without copyright protection (oops), and Einstein's works had nothing to do with copyright.

It seemed to me like Helprin made every single mistake (and worse) that he singled others out for.

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