Ch 2 of who owns the future

Lanier makes a point to further delve into the idea of people contributing infor to an econonmy because they will be paid for information. I think that's an interesting idea, mostly because it is very different than what it's like today. If people got paid to release information, I feel that people would be coming out with much more useful technology everyday. While reading this chapter, i appreciated how Lanier stepped back a bit and tried to view this from an objective standpoint instead of letting his biased get in the way. I agree with Lanier when he says that even though machines may one day be capable of running themselves, they still use "human thoughts" to function fully. I interpreted that as in Lanier saying "sure, eventually robots could be fully autonomous, but even if they were, they would be programmed to think like other humans". I guess this makes the thought of a robot revolution in the future a bit less terrifying.