Maybe if Jaron Lanier came and spoke for our class I would understand him a bit more. His sentence structure and overall philosophy is a bit over my head. Chapters 2-4 of Who Owns the Future? constantly go back to how technology is like the middle class. What I get from this is that technology is very complex, like the economy. Which is absolutely a fact. When I think of technology in relation to the economy, I think of the fact that economy has everything to do with who has what technology. Your economic status has everything to do with whether you have a tablet, smartphone, laptop, etc. or if you have to go to the library to use the internet for free. Or you can be the 1% of the population that can afford the Google Glass. Technology is available to most of the world, but depending on where you are or how much money you have, you're limited yet again. Who has the fastest wifi? People who pay for it individually. Who has the newest iPad whenever a new edition comes out. The Kardashian's (or some other ridiculously rich family). Maybe this isn't what Lanier was getting at, but every time I saw the word middle class all I could think is the reality of how attainable, or unattainable technology is based on how much money you have.
All the world strives for is technology.
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