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You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Lanier, Jaron
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780307269645
- Book Title
- You Are Not a Gadget : a Manifesto
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8.7 in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Computers, Technology & Engineering, Science
- Topic
- Social Aspects, General, Information Technology
- Item Weight
- 13.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307269647
ISBN-13
9780307269645
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71764501
Product Key Features
Book Title
You Are Not a Gadget : a Manifesto
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Social Aspects, General, Information Technology
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-020298
Reviews
“A provocative and sure-to-be-controversial book . . . Lucid, powerful and persuasive. It is necessary reading for anyone interested in how the Web and the software we use every day are reshaping culture and the marketplace.â€� -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Important . . . At the bottom of Lanier’s cyber-tinkering is a fundamentally humanist faith in technology, a belief that wisely designed machines can bring us closer together by expanding the possibilities of creative self-expression . . . His mind is a fascinating place to hang out.â€� -Ben Ehrenreich, Los Angeles Times “Persuasive . . . [Lanier] is the first great apostate of the Internet era.â€� -David Wallace-Wells, Newsweek “Thrilling and thought-provoking . . . A necessary corrective in the echo chamber of technology debates. You Are Not a Gadget challenges many dominant ideologies and poses theoretical questions, the answers to which might start with one bright bulb, but depend on the friction of engaged parties. In other words, Lanier is acting like a computer scientist. Let’s hope he is not alone.â€� -John Freeman, San Francisco Chronicle “A call for a more humanistic-to say nothing of humane-alternative future in which the individual is celebrated more than the crowd and the unique more than the homogenized . . . You Are Not a Gadget may be its own best argument for exalting the creativity of the individual over the collective efforts of the ‘hive mind.’ It’s the work of a singular visionary, and offers a hopeful message: Resistance may not be futile after all.â€� -Rich Jaroslovsky, Bloomberg.com “Provocative . . . [Lanier] confronts the big issues with bracing directness . . . The reader sits up. One of the insider’s insiders of the computing world seems to have gone rogue.â€� -Sven Birkerts, The Boston Globe “Sparky, thought-provoking . . . This is good knockabout stuff, and Lanier clearly enjoys rethinking received tech wisdom: his book is a refreshing change from Silicon Valley’s usual hype.â€� -Paul Marks, New Scientist “Lanier’s detractors have accused him of Ludditism, but his argument will make intuitive sense to anyone concerned with questions of propriety, responsibility, and authenticity.â€� - The New Yorker “Poetic and prophetic, this could be the most important book of the year. The knee-jerk notion that the net as it is being developed sets us free is turned on its head . . . Read this book and rise up against net regimentation!â€� -Iain Finlayson, The Times (London) “From crowd-sourcing to social networking and mash-ups, Lanier dismantles the tropes of the current online culture.â€� -Bloomberg.com, “Five Top Business Books of 2010â€� “Lanier asks some important questions . . . He offers thoughtful solutions . . . Gadget is an essential first step at harnessing a post-Google world.â€� -Eli Sanders, The Stranger (Seattle) “Lanier turns a philosopher’s eye to our everyday online tools . . . The reader is compelled to engage with his work, to assent, contradict, and contemplate. In this, Lanier’s manifesto is not just a success, but a meta-success . . . Lovers of the Internet and all its possibilities owe it to themselves to plunge into Lanier’s [ You Are Not a Gadget ] and look hard in the mirror. He’s not telling us what to think; he’s challenging us to take a hard look at our cyberculture, and emerge with new creative inspiration.â€� -Carolyn Kellogg, Flavorwire “Inspired, infu, "A provocative and sure-to-be-controversial book . . . Lucid, powerful and persuasive. It is necessary reading for anyone interested in how the Web and the software we use every day are reshaping culture and the marketplace." -Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times  "Important . . . At the bottom of Lanier's cyber-tinkering is a fundamentally humanist faith in technology, a belief that wisely designed machines can bring us closer together by expanding the possibilities of creative self-expression . . . His mind is a fascinating place to hang out." -Ben Ehrenreich,Los Angeles Times  "Persuasive . . . [Lanier] is the first great apostate of the Internet era." -David Wallace-Wells,Newsweek  "Thrilling and thought-provoking . . . A necessary corrective in the echo chamber of technology debates.You Are Not a Gadgetchallenges many dominant ideologies and poses theoretical questions, the answers to which might start with one bright bulb, but depend on the friction of engaged parties. In other words, Lanier is acting like a computer scientist. Let's hope he is not alone." -John Freeman,San Francisco Chronicle  "A call for a more humanistic-to say nothing of humane-alternative future in which the individual is celebrated more than the crowd and the unique more than the homogenized . . .You Are Not a Gadget may be its own best argument for exalting the creativity of the individual over the collective efforts of the 'hive mind.' It's the work of a singular visionary, and offers a hopeful message: Resistance may not be futile after all." -Rich Jaroslovsky, Bloomberg.com  "Provocative . . . [Lanier] confronts the big issues with bracing directness . . . The reader sits up. One of the insider's insiders of the computing world seems to have gone rogue." -Sven Birkerts,The Boston Globe  "Sparky, thought-provoking . . . This is good knockabout stuff, and Lanier clearly enjoys rethinking received tech wisdom: his book is a refreshing change from Silicon Valley's usual hype." -Paul Marks,New Scientist  "Lanier's detractors have accused him of Ludditism, but his argument will make intuitive sense to anyone concerned with questions of propriety, responsibility, and authenticity." -The New Yorker  "Poetic and prophetic, this could be the most important book of the year. The knee-jerk notion that the net as it is being developed sets us free is turned on its head . . . Read this book and rise up against net regimentation!" -Iain Finlayson,The Times(London)  "From crowd-sourcing to social networking and mash-ups, Lanier dismantles the tropes of the current online culture." -Bloomberg.com, "Five Top Business Books of 2010"  "Lanier asks some important questions . . . He offers thoughtful solutions . . .Gadgetis an essential first step at harnessing a post-Google world." -Eli Sanders,The Stranger(Seattle)  "Lanier turns a philosopher's eye to our everyday online tools . . . The reader is compelled to engage with his work, to assent, contradict, and contemplate. In this, Lanier's manifesto is not just a success, but a meta-success . . . Lovers of the Internet and all its possibilities owe it to themselves to plunge into Lanier's [You Are Not a Gadget] and look hard in the mirror. He's not telling us what to think; he's challenging us to take a hard look at our cyberculture, and emerge with new creative inspiration." -Carolyn Kellogg,F
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
303.48/33
Synopsis
Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way it is transforming our lives for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web's first designers made crucial choices (such as making one's presence anonymous) that have had enormous--and often unintended--consequences. What's more, these designs quickly became "locked in," a permanent part of the web's very structure. Lanier discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the "wisdom" of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. Lanier also shows: How 1960s antigovernment paranoia influenced the design of the online world and enabled trolling and trivialization in online discourse How file sharing is killing the artistic middle class; How a belief in a technological "rapture" motivates some of the most influential technologists Why a new humanistic technology is necessary. Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defense of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.
LC Classification Number
HM851.L358 2010
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