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Author / Creator:	Lanier, Jaron.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Description:	ix, 209 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Information technology -- Social aspects. Technological innovations -- Social aspects. Technology -- Social aspects. Information technology -- Social aspects. Technological innovations -- Social aspects. Technology -- Social aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7998247

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ISBN:	9780307269645 0307269647 9780307389978 (pbk.) 0307389979 (pbk.)
Notes:	"This is a Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, Lanier offers this cautionary look at the way the Web is transforming our lives, for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web's first designers made crucial choices with enormous-and often unintended-consequences. What's more, these designs quickly became "locked in," a permanent part of the web's very structure. Lanier warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the "wisdom" of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. This book is a deeply felt defense of the individual, from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.--From publisher description.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Part 1. what is a Person?
Chapter 1. Missing Persons
Chapter 2. An Apocalypse of Self-Abdication
Chapter 3. The Noosphere Is Just Another Name for Everyone's Inner Troll
Part 2. What will Money Be?
Chapter 4. Digital Peasant Chic
Chapter 5. The City Is Built to Music
Chapter 6. The Lords of the Clouds Renounce Free Will in Order to Become Infinitely Lucky
Chapter 7. The Prospects for Humanistic Cloud Economics
Chapter 8. Three Possible Future Directions
Part 3. The Unbearable Thinness of Flatness
Chapter 9. Retropolis
Chapter 10. Digital Creativity Eludes Flat Places
Chapter 11. All Hail the Membrane
Part 4. Making the best of bits
Chapter 12. I Am a Contrarian Loop
Chapter 13. One Story of How Semantics Might Have Evolved
Part 5. Future Humors
Chapter 14. Home at Last (My Love Affair with Bachelardian Neoteny)
Acknowledgements
Index

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