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You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

by Jaron Lanier
You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto - Thryft
You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto - Thryft

Unique manifesto challenging digital revolution ideology.

Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget challenges the popular notion that computers and machines are superior to human creativity. Lanier argues that by devaluing individuals, we risk creativity, weaker design in engineering and science, and reducing development in every sphere. He reflects on the good and bad developments in design and thought twenty years after the invention of the web. This deeply felt defense of the individual challenges the digital revolution ideology and is a must-read for those interested in technology's impact on culture and society.

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You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

by Jaron Lanier
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ISBN: 9781846143427
Authors: Jaron Lanier
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date of Publication: 2010-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, History, Sociology, Philosophy
Related Topics: Computers, Psychology, History, History
Goodreads rating: 3.56
(rated by 6170 readers)

Description

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 alsoHow 1960s antigovernment paranoia influenced the design of the online world and enabled trolling and trivialization in online discourseHow file sharing is killing the artistic middle class;How a belief in a technological “rapture” motivates some of the most influential technologistsWhy a new humanistic technology is necessary.Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defense of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.
 

Unique manifesto challenging digital revolution ideology.

Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget challenges the popular notion that computers and machines are superior to human creativity. Lanier argues that by devaluing individuals, we risk creativity, weaker design in engineering and science, and reducing development in every sphere. He reflects on the good and bad developments in design and thought twenty years after the invention of the web. This deeply felt defense of the individual challenges the digital revolution ideology and is a must-read for those interested in technology's impact on culture and society.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.