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Who Owns the Future? - Jaron Lanier
Who Owns the Future?
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Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic and social trend of our age: the poisonous concentration of money and power in our digital networks. Lanier has predicted how... show more
Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic and social trend of our age: the poisonous concentration of money and power in our digital networks. Lanier has predicted how technology will transform our humanity for decades, and his insight has never been more urgently needed. He shows how Siren Servers, which exploit big data and the free sharing of information, led our economy into recession, imperiled personal privacy, and hollowed out the middle class. The networks that define our world—including social media, financial institutions, and intelligence agencies—now threaten to destroy it. But there is an alternative. In this provocative, poetic, and deeply humane book, Lanier charts a path toward a brighter future: an information economy that rewards ordinary people for what they do and share on the web.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781451654974 (1451654979)
ASIN: 1451654979
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
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Note with interest.Don't know if I have time for it in the coming months to pick this up.In the meantime, this review of the book from the Wired.com seems interesting on laying out the structure and the questions that this book has asked and tried to answer for all of us.
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