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You are not a gadget : a manifesto

Author: Jaron Lanier
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, Lanier offers this cautionary look at the way the Web is transforming our lives, for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jaron Lanier
ISBN: 9780307269645 0307269647 9780307389978 0307389979 9781846143410 1846143411
OCLC Number: 297147711
Description: ix, 209 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: What is a person? --
Missing persons --
An apocalypse of self-abdication --
The noosphere is just another name for everyone's inner troll --
What will money be? --
Digital peasant chic --
The city is built to music --
The lords of the clouds renounce free will in order to become infinitely lucky --
The prospects for humanistic cloud economics --
Three possible future directions --
The unbearable thinness of flatness --
Retropolis --
Digital creativity eludes flat places --
All hail the membrane --
Making the best of bits --
I am a contrarian loop --
One story of how semantics might have evolved --
Future humors --
Home at last (my love affair with Bachelardian neoteny).
Responsibility: Jaron Lanier.

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Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, Lanier offers this cautionary look at the way the Web is transforming our lives, for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web's first designers made crucial choices with enormous-and often unintended-consequences. What's more, these designs quickly became "locked in," a permanent part of the web's very structure. Lanier warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the "wisdom" of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. This book is a deeply felt defense of the individual, from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.--From publisher description.

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