Jaron Lanier Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. May 3, 1960
Birthday: May 3
Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?
source: "Who Owns the Future?". Book by Jaron Lanier, 2013.
topic: Photography, Jobs, Class, Middle Class, Kodak, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, New Faces
