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Who Owns the Future?

Door Jaron Lanier

Categorie
Psychologie
Boeknummer
#332447-VF27
Titel
Who Owns the Future?
Auteur
Lanier, Jaron
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
New York etc. : Simon & Schuster
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
1476729867
ISBN13
9781476729862
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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 industries—from media to medicine to manufacturing—we are facing even greater challenges to employmen... (Lees verder)t 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.
Pagina's
396
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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