Who Owns the Future Author:Jaron Lanier The ?brilliant? and ?daringly original? (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the ?David Foster Wallace of tech? (London Evening Standard)?asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy. — Time and again, computer scientist, musician, and digital visionary Jaron Lanier has predicted the ways in which techn... more »ology has revolutionized our culture. His ?mind-bending, exuberant? writing (The Washington Post) about the online world?s effect on our lives has shaped national conversations on employment, economics, privacy, culture, and more?and the influence of his seminal work on the Internet and in virtual reality reaches from media to medicine to manufacturing.
In Who Owns the Future?, Lanier tells ?the central economic story of our time? (The New Republic): ?how to help ordinary people survive and prosper at a time when advances in computer technology make it increasingly difficult for some people to find a job? (USA TODAY). Lanier asserts that the rise of digital networks led our economy into recession and decimated the middle class, and he charts the alternative to allowing technology to own our future?a new information economy that will grow the middle class. As Lanier writes, ?information is just people in disguise??and our digital economy must reward people rather than take advantage of them.
Insightful, original, and provocative, Who Owns the Future? is necessary reading for anyone who lives in our digital world and is vested in what tomorrow will bring.« less
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