You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. Jaron Lanier - Deal Domains

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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780141049113 ISBN: 0141049111 Label: Penguin Books Manufacturer: Penguin Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 2011-02 Publisher: Penguin Books Studio: Penguin Books
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Editorial Reviews: Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual creativity. There were more places to express ourselves than ever before ...yet no one really had anything to say. Does this have to be our future? In "You are not a Gadget" digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how recent developments in our culture are deadening personal interaction, stifling genuine inventiveness and even changing us as people. Showing us the way to a future where individuals mean more than machines, this is a searing manifesto against mass mediocrity, a creative call to arms - and an impassioned defence of the human.