Jaron Lanier: You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (2010)
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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 quickly became “locked in,” a permanent part of the web’s very structure.
Lanier discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and 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.”
Publisher Knopf, 2010
ISBN 0307269647, 9780307269645
224 pages
Reviews: Adam Thierer (Technology Liberation Front, 2010), Clive Thompson (Bookforum, 2010).
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hi,
i’m trying to download this book, but the url doesn’t seem to fly.
buena onda from nyc.
f.
hi f,
link updated!
broken links for PDF and EPUB
updated
Adorno Ästhetische Theorie (DE) – could you please re-upload?
done
Dusan, can you pls reset this Spinoza link?
Thanks, Lu
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