Jaron Lanier

Who Owns the Future?

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Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? 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.

Lanier has predicted how technology will transform our humanity for decades, and his insight has never been more urgently needed. 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 provocative, poetic, and deeply humane book, Lanier charts a path toward a brighter future: an information economy that rewards ordinary people for what they do and share on the web.
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Quotes

  • Patricia Ortegahas quoted5 years ago
    In the network age there can be collusion without colluders, conspiracies without conspirators
  • Patricia Ortegahas quoted5 years ago
    Siren Servers do repattern the world, however, and conventional business thinking is inadequate to describe how they work
  • Patricia Ortegahas quoted5 years ago
    It ideally doesn’t do or make anything. The plan is simply to channel the information of those who do act in the world.

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