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You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto |
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.
Lanier also shows:
How 1960s antigovernment paranoia influenced the design of the online world and enabled trolling and trivialization in online discourse
How file sharing is killing the artistic middle class;
How a belief in a technological "rapture" motivates some of the most influential technologists
Why a new humanistic technology is necessary.
| Indice e argomenti trattati |
| Preface | | ix | | | PART ONE WHAT IS A PERSON? |
| | 1 | | | | 3 | | | An Apocalypse of Self-Abdication |
| | 24 | | | The Noosphere Is Just Another Name for Everyone's Inner Troll |
| | 45 | | | PART TWO WHAT WILL MONEY BE? |
| | 73 | | | | 77 | | | The City Is Built to Music |
| | 87 | | | The Lords of the Clouds Renounce Free Will in Order to Become Infinitely Lucky |
| | 94 | | | The Prospects for Humanistic Cloud Economics |
| | 100 | | | Three Possible Future Directions |
| | 108 | | | PART THREE THE UNBEARABLE THINNESS OF FLATNESS |
| | 117 | | | | 121 | | | Digital Creativity Eludes Flat Places |
| | 133 | | | | 138 | | | PART FOUR MAKING THE BEST OF BITS |
| | 149 | | | | 153 | | | One Story of How Semantics Might Have Evolved |
| | 158 | | | | 175 | | | Home at Last (My Love Affair with Bachelardian Neoteny) |
| | 179 | | | Acknowledgments | | 195 | | | Index | | 197 | |
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