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Cover of: You are not a gadget by Jaron Lanier
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Cover of: You are not a gadget by Jaron Lanier

You are not a gadget
A manifesto
1st ed.
by Jaron Lanier.

Published 2010 by Alfred A. Knopf in New York .
Written in English.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
One What is a Person? 1
1 Missing Persons 3
2 An Apocalypse of Self-Abdication 24
3 The Noosphere Is Just Another Name for Everyone's Inner Troll 45
Two What Will Money Be? 73
4 Digital Peasant Chic 77
5 The City Is Built to Music 87
6 The Lords of the Clouds Renounce Free Will in Order to Become Infinitely Lucky 94
7 The Prospects for Humanistic Cloud Economics 100
8 Three Possible Future Directions 108
Three The Unbearable Thinness of Flatness 117
9 Retropolis 121
10 Digital Creativity Eludes Flat Places 133
11 All Hail the Membrane 138
Four Making The Best of Bits 149
12 I Am a Contrarian Loop 153
13 One Story of How Semantics Might Have Evolved 158
Five Future Humors 175
14 Home at Last (My Love Affair with Bachelardian Neoteny) 179
Acknowledgements 195
Index 197

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/33
Library of Congress
HM851 .L358 2010

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
ix, 209

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23391999M
ISBN 13
9780307269645, 9780307389978
LC Control Number
2009020298
Library Thing
8749061
Goodreads
6683549

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