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Title: Who Owns the Future?
Author: Jaron Lanier
Narrator: Pete Simoneilli
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-16-13
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 214 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Technology
Publisher's Summary:
The dazzling new masterwork from the prophet of Silicon Valley
Jaron Lanier is the best-selling 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 industries - from media to medicine to manufacturing - 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 listening for all who live a part of their lives online.
Critic Reviews:
"Daringly original... Lanier's sharp, accessible style and opinions make Who Owns the Future? terrifically inviting." (Janet Maslin, The New York Times)
"Lanier has a mind as boundless as the internet.... [He is] the David Foster Wallace of tech." (London Evening Standard)
"One of the triumphs of Lanier's intelligent and subtle book is its inspiring portrait of the kind of people that a democratic information economy would produce. His vision implies that if we are allowed to lead absorbing, properly remunerated lives, we will likewise outgrow our addiction to consumerism and technology." (The Guardian)
Members Reviews:
THRESHOLD OF CHANGE
Society is at the threshold of change. Jaron Lanier writes about the information age in Who Owns the Future. Just as the industrial revolution and two world wars mechanize human production, the computer and internet informationize mechanical production. Lanier bluntly explains human employment will decline in proportion to computerization of production.
Lanier is neither posturing as a Luddite nor abandoning the principles of democratic capitalism. He suggests human beings need to understand their changing role in society. Lanier infers a failure to understand human role-change will compel disastrous reactions; i.e. reactions like the Luddites of the Industrial Revolution or socialist, fascist, and communist sympathizers of the post-industrial world.
Lanier begins to explain the concept of information monetization. Information monetization is something that exists today but is mistakenly understood as something that is free. Examples are Facebook, Google Search, Amazon.com, Microsoft Windows 10, Apple ITunes, governments, and other organizations that Lanier calls Siren Servers. Nothing is free. The price humans pay is information about themselves, their needs, desires, habits, interests, etc.
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Title: Who Owns the Future?
Author: Jaron Lanier
Narrator: Pete Simoneilli
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-16-13
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 214 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Technology
Publisher's Summary:
The dazzling new masterwork from the prophet of Silicon Valley
Jaron Lanier is the best-selling 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 industries - from media to medicine to manufacturing - 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 listening for all who live a part of their lives online.
Critic Reviews:
"Daringly original... Lanier's sharp, accessible style and opinions make Who Owns the Future? terrifically inviting." (Janet Maslin, The New York Times)
"Lanier has a mind as boundless as the internet.... [He is] the David Foster Wallace of tech." (London Evening Standard)
"One of the triumphs of Lanier's intelligent and subtle book is its inspiring portrait of the kind of people that a democratic information economy would produce. His vision implies that if we are allowed to lead absorbing, properly remunerated lives, we will likewise outgrow our addiction to consumerism and technology." (The Guardian)
Members Reviews:
THRESHOLD OF CHANGE
Society is at the threshold of change. Jaron Lanier writes about the information age in Who Owns the Future. Just as the industrial revolution and two world wars mechanize human production, the computer and internet informationize mechanical production. Lanier bluntly explains human employment will decline in proportion to computerization of production.
Lanier is neither posturing as a Luddite nor abandoning the principles of democratic capitalism. He suggests human beings need to understand their changing role in society. Lanier infers a failure to understand human role-change will compel disastrous reactions; i.e. reactions like the Luddites of the Industrial Revolution or socialist, fascist, and communist sympathizers of the post-industrial world.
Lanier begins to explain the concept of information monetization. Information monetization is something that exists today but is mistakenly understood as something that is free. Examples are Facebook, Google Search, Amazon.com, Microsoft Windows 10, Apple ITunes, governments, and other organizations that Lanier calls Siren Servers. Nothing is free. The price humans pay is information about themselves, their needs, desires, habits, interests, etc.