Digital Serfs

February 15, 2011, 09:13 AM

http://splicenow.com/2011/02/14/digital-serfs/

We in post production are digital content creators, too, and many are facing declining wages as our technology gets democratized. Will Huffington Post begin to pay everyone? Or will we continue to chase each other to the bottom? Jaron Lanier, in his brilliant book "You Are Not a Gadget," indicates that creative people are destined to become the peasants of the digital age. "The combination of hive mind and advertising has resulted in a new kind of social contract," he says.

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