1. (T/F) Lanier thinks of nature as a (very special) person.
2. (T/F) Lanier concedes that the new digital humanism he defends cannot rival The Singularity's "hope of an afterlife" achieved through technology.
3. What is neoteny, and what is it good for? What do children want, and where do they get it (besides parents and peers)?
4. What are Lanier's predictions for the future of software and of medical progress?
5. What's the most obvious aspect of digital culture? What's good and bad about childhood?
6. (T/F) Lanier enjoys verbal accounts of non-verbal experience.
7. What's Lanier's prediction for the future of education? What childhood-less species taunts us with clues about potential human futures?
8. Why is Lanier so excited about the possibility of "postsymbolic communication"? What are its implications for Platonic realism and metaphysics in general, and for our future?
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