by Jaron Lanier
Lanier's disarming modesty comes off as lack of confidence in his argument, or a collection of mere opinions, which is disappointing for such a thought provoking book. It is good to hear criticism of the prevailing mode of thought, but I wish it was a little less contradictory and smacked less of a...
Geek Philosophy
This book is a powerful criticism of the negative aspects of the Web 2.0 movement. Lanier does a good job of explaining the reductionism that occurs when our individuality is forced into frameworks like Facebook to be mined in the digital cloud. Cloud computing, AI, the Singularity, and the effect...
I would like to give this work a higher rating, but I'm afraid it's a bit too hard to read. That said, I think anyone who is interested in our future as a species should spend some time with Lanier and this manifesto, because he raises some pertinent questions about what technology does to us as hum...
UPDATED - 1/5/13 - at bottomThere are many ideas floating about in the mind of Jaron Lanier, the guy who popularized the term virtual reality, was with Atari in the beginning and has, for decades, been involved with VR as a teacher, consultant and architect. One of his notions, the core argument of ...
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier has a bad attack of "what hath technology wrought," but his criticism are valid. He points out how open access has been a huge boon for consumers and for the companies that control access, but a total bust for creators who are robbed of any way to profit from their c...
There are a few problems with this book...1. The author mentions himself too often, it comes off as self-indulgent. This is a topic that would be better analyzed by statistics than personal opinion.2. A ton of books are being printed all the time on what being human IS, and this book tries to tackl...
Normally, I gobble up these types of books with a passion. However, this one was painful for me to read and I almost didn't finish it. I don't think it was very well written, rather disjointed and never really captivated me.Skip this one!
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