You Are Not a Gadget A Manifesto

Name: You Are Not a Gadget A Manifesto
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ISBN: 9780307389978

ISBN-10: 0307389979

ISBN-13: 9780307389978

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jaron Lanier

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Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way it 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 (such as making one's presence anonymous) that have had enormous--and often unintended--consequences. What's more these designs…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Jaron Lanier is a scientist and musician best known for his work in Virtual Reality research, a term he coined and popularized. Time named him one of the "Time 100" in 2010. He lives in Berkeley, California.



Introduction to the Paperback Edition


Preface


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


he 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


afterword to the Paperback Edition


acknowledgments


Index