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10 Arguments for Deleting Social Media.. by Jaron Lanier
Category: Non-Fiction
'A blisteringly good, urgent, essential read' ZADIE SMITHJaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer and 'high-tech genius' (Sunday Times) who first alerted us to the dangers of social media, explains why its toxic effects are at the heart of its design, and explains in ten simple ar ...Show more
Dawn of the New Everything - Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier
Category: Science
Jaron Lanier, 'the father of Virtual Reality ... a high-tech genius' (Sunday Times), tells the extraordinary story of how in just over three decades Virtual Reality went from being a dream to a reality - and how its power to turn dreams into realities will transform us and our world. Virtual Reality has ...Show more
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
Category: Non-Fiction
A timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer. Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms.
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
Category: Non-Fiction
As you read this, thousands of remote computers are refining secret models of who you are, using the information to make huge fortunes for a few people. Does the future have to be this way? How can we change it? In this visionary book Jaron Lanier imagines an alternative, where economic power is given b ...Show more
You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
Category: Non-Fiction
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 ...Show more
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
Category: Non-Fiction
Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary, offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way technology is transforming lives for better and for worse.
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