Who owns the future? / Jaron Lanier.

By:

Lanier, Jaron [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014Edition: Simon & Schuster trade paperback editionDescription: xxviii, 411 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781451654974 (paperback)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

303.4833 LAN 23 013316

LOC classification:

HC79.I55 L365 2013

Contents:

Introduction to the Paperback edition Prelude Part one, First round. Motivation ; A simple idea Part two, The cybernetic tempest. Money as seen through one computer scientist's eyes ; The ad hoc construction of mass dignity ; "Siren servers" ; The specter of the perfect investment ; Some pioneering siren servers Part three, How this century might unfold from two points of view. From below: mass unemployment events ; From above: misusing big data to become ridiculous Part four, Markets, energy landscapes, and narcissism. Markets and energy landscapes ; Narcissism Part five, The contest to be most meta. Story lost ; Coercion on autopilot: specialized network effects ; Obscuring the human element ; Story found Part six, Democracy. Complaint is not enough ; Clout must underlie rights, if rights are to persist Part seven, Ted Nelson. First thought, best thought Part eight, The dirty pictures (or, Nuts and bolts: what a humanistic alternative might be like). The project ; We need to do better than ad hoc levees ; Some first principles ; Who will do what? ; Big business ; How will we earn and spend? ; Risk ; Financial identity ; Inclusion ; The interface to reality ; Creepy ; A stab at mitigating creepiness Part nine, Transition. The transition ; Leadership Conclusion: what is to be remembered? Afterword to the Paperback edition.

Summary: A visionary innovator of virtual reality 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 for stabilizing the middle class and enabling positive growth.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-389) and index.

Introduction to the Paperback edition
Prelude
Part one, First round. Motivation ; A simple idea
Part two, The cybernetic tempest. Money as seen through one computer scientist's eyes ; The ad hoc construction of mass dignity ; "Siren servers" ; The specter of the perfect investment ; Some pioneering siren servers
Part three, How this century might unfold from two points of view. From below: mass unemployment events ; From above: misusing big data to become ridiculous
Part four, Markets, energy landscapes, and narcissism. Markets and energy landscapes ; Narcissism
Part five, The contest to be most meta. Story lost ; Coercion on autopilot: specialized network effects ; Obscuring the human element ; Story found
Part six, Democracy. Complaint is not enough ; Clout must underlie rights, if rights are to persist
Part seven, Ted Nelson. First thought, best thought
Part eight, The dirty pictures (or, Nuts and bolts: what a humanistic alternative might be like). The project ; We need to do better than ad hoc levees ; Some first principles ; Who will do what? ; Big business ; How will we earn and spend? ; Risk ; Financial identity ; Inclusion ; The interface to reality ; Creepy ; A stab at mitigating creepiness
Part nine, Transition. The transition ; Leadership
Conclusion: what is to be remembered?
Afterword to the Paperback edition.

A visionary innovator of virtual reality 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 for stabilizing the middle class and enabling positive growth.

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