Who owns the future?

by Lanier, Jaron

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Title Statements

Full title :Who owns the future? / Jaron Lanier.

Summary

In this book the author, father of virtual reality, and one of the world's most brilliant thinkers evaluates the negative impact of digital network technologies on the economy and particularly the middle class, citing challenges to employment and personal wealth while exploring the potential of a new information economy. This is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic and social trend of our age: the poisonous concentration of money and power in our digital networks. He has predicted how technology will transform our humanity for decades. He shows how Siren Servers, which exploit big data and the free sharing of information, led our economy into recession, imperiled personal privacy, and hollowed out the middle class. The networks that define our world, including social media, financial institutions, and intelligence agencies, now threaten to destroy it. But there is an alternative. In this book he charts a path toward a brighter future: an information economy that rewards ordinary people for what they do and share on the web.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Simon & Schuster
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781451654998, 1451654995, 9781451654974, 1451654979
oclc:ocn892939464
LC Classification:HC79.I55
Dewey Decimal:303.48/33

pt. I: First round -- 1. Motivation -- 2. A simple idea -- -- pt. II: The cybernetic tempest -- 3. Money as seen through one computer scientist's eyes -- 4. The Ad Hoc construction of mass dignity -- 5. "Siren Servers" -- 6. The specter of the perfect investment -- 7. Some pioneering siren servers -- -- pt. III: How this century might unfold, from two points of view -- 8. From below: mass unemployment events -- 9. From above: misusing big data to become ridiculous -- -- pt. IV: Markets, energy landscapes, and narcissism -- 10. Markets and evergy landscapes -- 11. Narcissism -- -- pt. V: The contest to be most meta -- 12. Story lost -- 13. Coercion on autopilot: specialized network effects -- 14. Obscuring the human element -- 15. Story found -- -- pt. VI: Democracy -- 16. Complaint is not enough -- 17. Clout must underlie rights, if rights are to persist -- -- pt. VII: Ted Nelson -- 18. First thought, best thought -- -- pt. VIII: The dirty pictures (or, nuts and bolts: what a humanistic alternative might be like) -- 19. The project -- 20. We need to do better than Ad Hoc levees -- 21. Some first principles -- 22. Who will do what? -- 23. Big business -- 24. How will we earn and sp…

Subjects

COMPUTERS -- Internet Economics Économie politique Information technology -- Economic aspe… Informationssamhället -- ekonomiska asp… Informationsteknik -- ekonomiska aspekt… Innovations -- Aspect économique Technological innovations -- Economic a… Technologie de l'information -- Aspect … Tekniska innovationer -- ekonomiska asp…