Who Owns the Future?
by Lanier, Jaron
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- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 1451654979
- ISBN 13
- 9781451654974
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Synopsis
THE DAZZLING NEW MASTERWORK FROM THE PROPHET OF SILICON VALLEY Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in which technology is transforming our culture. Who Owns the Future? is a visionary reckoning with the effects network technologies have had on our economy. Lanier asserts that the rise of digital networks led our economy into recession and decimated the middle class. Now, as technology flattens more and more industriesâÈ'from media to medicine to manufacturingâÈ'we are facing even greater challenges to employment and personal wealth. But there is an alternative to allowing technology to own our future. In this ambitious and deeply humane book, Lanier charts the path toward a new information economy that will stabilize the middle class and allow it to grow. It is time for ordinary people to be rewarded for what they do and share on the web. Insightful, original, and provocative, Who Owns the Future? is necessary reading for everyone who lives a part of their lives online.
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- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8601500-6
- Title
- Who Owns the Future?
- Author
- Lanier, Jaron
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1451654979
- ISBN 13
- 9781451654974
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2014-04-01
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