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Mar 04, 2020aplbrandon rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Jaron Lanier might be a super genius. And he may be making some bold and important predictions about the fate of humans. Or he might just be tooting his own horn. Or I might not be smart enough to tell. Emphasis on "manifesto". This is…
Mar 02, 2020dirtbag rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
He is a philosopher nerd...this is quite wonderful.
Oct 10, 2018matthewgp206 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Fantastic book about what it means to be human in the digital age. This is a great entry point for getting into Jaron's work. -MP
Dec 31, 20161aa rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I really liked this essay; if Erasmus or della Mirandola were a computer and info tech junkies they could have written this. It brings the failure of Humane-ness - the failure to bring it about and extend it - to light in the thought about…
Dec 22, 2014Chapel_Hill_KenMc rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Jarod Lanier makes up for a somewhat rambling, disjointed argumentative structure by peppering this book with startling insights and counter-intuitive statements on the nature of technological innovation. Lanier, credited as the founder of…
Nov 23, 2014LillianSarahPink rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I can't say I recommend this book at all. The author seems rather bitter about new technology and the way people use it these days. Lanier tends to ramble and his arguments don't really work for me. I don't know, it just didn't seem to…
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Sep 19, 2013AnarchyintheLC rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
The subject is not what you would expect from the title. I found the emphasis was much less on human identity and interactions with technology, and a lot more about bitterness over who owns content on the internet and who is able to make…
May 29, 2013StarGladiator rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I admit up front I've never been a real Lanier fan; thinking his work mostly nebulous and lightweight in the cognition department. Sure, he sometimes states the glaringly obvious, not an altogether impressive feat! Lanier's knowledge…
May 29, 2013Stratified_nomad rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
[To echo what so many others have written...] This is an insightful, highly readable first-hand perpective of internet and it's pervasive influence over humanity and society. As someone who was an integral member of the tech industry…
Aug 25, 2012ateleb rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A well-written, call for cyber-sanity. Lanier equally deconstructs digital-utopianism and Ludditism. The chapters on MIDI music are more directed at musicians and techies, but the book is quite readable and it's style is refreshingly…
Jul 10, 2012Jean-Pierre Lebel rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This is an interesting book and I recommend it to anyone that cares about the direction the internet and computational devices are taking us as a species. As much as I appreciated what Jaron Lanier has to say about various technological…
Jun 19, 2012danielestes rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
You Are Not a Gadget is Jaron Lanier's critique the modern internet's tendency to favor the wisdom of crowds over the individual. Basically, he's warning against how we devalue our human uniqueness while pursuing an increasingly smarter…
Aug 15, 2010Leonardo7 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The following quote comes from the preface: It's early in the twenty-first century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons-automatons or numb mobs composed of people who are no longer acting as individuals.…