Jaron Lanier
The â€œbrilliantâ€ and â€œdaringly originalâ€ (,The New York Times,) critique of digital networks from the â€œDavid Foster Wallace of techâ€ (,London Evening Standard,)â€”asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.,Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the worldâ€™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 worldâ€”including social media, financial institutions, and intelligence agenciesâ€”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.
Nonfiction,Science,Technology,Science,Economics,Business,Philosophy,Politics,Sociology,Computers,Internet,Futurism
Who Owns the Future?