Comments on: Josh Harris - Silicon Alley/Pseudo/'net video pioneer - profiled. http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/josh-harris-silicon.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 10:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: monkeyrobot http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/josh-harris-silicon.html#comment-109723 monkeyrobot Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109723 Warning, the trailer is NSFW! Would be nice to note that before people click through. Warning, the trailer is NSFW! Would be nice to note that before people click through.

]]> By: PeaceLove http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/josh-harris-silicon.html#comment-110028 PeaceLove Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-110028 Creepy. There's a fascistic undercurrent to the "Quiet" event. <i>We Live In Public</i> makes the whole experience look extremely unpleasant and sick. But the film seems like a fantastic document of Harris' extraordinary excess and hubris. I can't wait to see the finished documentary! Harris seems to have been way ahead of his time in some ways, foreshadowing reality television shows like <i>Big Brother</i>. But he was totally wrong about the major cultural shift away from top down information and entertainment. Neither he nor anyone else in Silicon Alley seems to have groked the massive changes that were about to occur as soon as high-speed bandwidth became widely available. The extraordinary democratization of information distribution is the exact opposite of the top-down customization and control for which Harris seems to have had such a boner. Creepy. There’s a fascistic undercurrent to the “Quiet” event. We Live In Public makes the whole experience look extremely unpleasant and sick. But the film seems like a fantastic document of Harris’ extraordinary excess and hubris. I can’t wait to see the finished documentary!

Harris seems to have been way ahead of his time in some ways, foreshadowing reality television shows like Big Brother. But he was totally wrong about the major cultural shift away from top down information and entertainment. Neither he nor anyone else in Silicon Alley seems to have groked the massive changes that were about to occur as soon as high-speed bandwidth became widely available. The extraordinary democratization of information distribution is the exact opposite of the top-down customization and control for which Harris seems to have had such a boner.

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