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Who Owns the Future?

The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening Standard)—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.

Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’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 world—including social media, financial institutions, and intelligence agencies—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.


Author:

  • Jaron Lanier

Narrator:

  • Pete Simonelli

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 12 h 2 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Society
  • Warfare
  • Social science

4.3

6 ratings

Niko

28/11/2022

Sisältää paljon mielenkiintoista ajattelua, mutta havaittavissa paljon amerikkalaista maailmankuvaa siitä miten silikonilaakson supernörtit pelastavat maailman.

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    Jaron Lanier

    Jaron Lanier is a scientist and musician best known for his work in Virtual Reality research, a term he coined and popularized. Time named him one of the “Time 100” in 2010. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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