You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

Autorenporträt:

Jaron Lanier, 1960 geboren, gilt als Erfinder des Begriffs 'virtuelle Realität'. Er lehrt als Scholar at Large for Live Labs, Microsoft Corporation in Berkeley, Kalifornien, und ist als Musiker und bildender Künstler international hervorgetreten.

Klappentext:

Jaron Lanier is to technology what Nassim Taleb of The Black Swan is to finance: a guru to his field, challenging accepted thinking. Expect strong reactions on publication.

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 individuals themselves. The crowd was wise. Machines, specifically computers, were no longer tools to be used by human minds - they were better than humans.

Welcome to the world of the digital revolution.

Yet what if, by devaluing individuals, we are deadening creativity, endlessly rehashing past culture, risking weaker design in engineering and science, losing democracy, and reducing development - in every sphere? In You Are Not A Gadget, Jaron Lanier, digital guru, and inventor of Virtual Reality, delivers a searing manifesto in support of the human and reflects on the good and bad developments in design and thought twenty years after the invention of the web. Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defence of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.

Autorenporträt:

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.

Themen:

• Digitalelektronik
• Gesellschaftlicher Wandel
• Virtuelle Realität

Verwandte Themen:

• Globalisierung
• Internet
• Arbeitswelt
• Kapitalismus
• Zukunftsfragen
• Zukunftsfähigkeit
• Wirtschaftswachstum
• Gesellschaft (Soziologie)
• Religiöse Zeitfragen
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