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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication date
March 4, 2014
Pages
411
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781451654974
ISBN-10
1451654979
Dimensions
1 by 5 by 8 in.
Weight
0.85 lbs.
Original list price
$17.00
Subjects
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
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Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality | Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now | Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior) | Dawn of the New Everything | The Death of Expertise | Bowling Alone | You Are Not a Gadget
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening Standard)—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.
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.
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.
Editions
Hardcover
from Simon & Schuster (May 7, 2013)
9781451654967 | details & prices | 396 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $28.00
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Simon & Schuster (March 4, 2014)
9781451654974 | details & prices | 411 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $17.00
About: The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening Standard)—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.
About: The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening Standard)—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.
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