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10 Arguments for Deleting Social Media.. by Jaron Lanier
Category: Philosophy and Religion
'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 by Jaron Lanier
Category: Futurism
Named a Best Book of the Year by theEconomist, Wall Street Journal & Vox 'The father of virtual reality' (Sunday Times) explains why virtual reality presents the ultimate test for humanity. 'Essential reading, not just for VR-watchers but for anyone interested in how society came to be how it is, a ...Show more
Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier
Category: Social Sciences
Jaron Lanier, 'the father of Virtual Reality a 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 lo ...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
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner; E. Glen Weyl; Vitalik Buterin (Foreword by); Jaron Lanier (Foreword by)
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for all Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking on its head. With a new foreword by Et ...Show more
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
Category: Health and Wellbeing
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.
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer. You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we're better off without them. InTen Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates ...Show more
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
Category: Science
Who Owns The Future? is the new masterwork from the prophet of the digital age, Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not A Gadget. In the past, a revolution in production, such as the industrial revolution, generally increased the wealth and freedom of people. The digital revolution we are living through is ...Show more
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
Category: Technology and Transport
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: Culture
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: Biography
Something went wrong around the start of the 21st century. Individual creativity began to go out of fashion. Music became an endless rehashing of the past. Scientists were in danger of no longer understanding their own research. Indeed, not only was individual creativity old-fashioned but so were indivi ...Show more
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
Category: Current Affairs
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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