Jaron Lanier: Who Owns The Future?, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Who Owns The Future?
Buch
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 03/2014
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780241957219
- Item number:
- 3128966
- Volume:
- 372 Pages
- Age recommendation:
- Einsteiger/Laien
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2014
- Weight:
- 294 g
- Format:
- 197 x 128 mm
- Thickness:
- 27 mm
- Release date:
- 4.3.2014
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of Who Owns The Future? |
Price |
|---|
Short description
As you read this, thousands of remote computers are refining secret models of who you are, using the information to make huge fortunes for a few people. Does the future have to be this way? How can we change it? In this visionary book Jaron Lanier imagines an alternative, where economic power is given back to creators.
Blurb
Jaron Lanier is a philosopher and computer scientist who has spent his career pushing the transformative power of modern technology to its limits. He is one of the premier designers and engineers at work today, and has been named one of the top one hundred public intellectuals in the world by Prospect and Foreign Policy. His previous book is You Are Not A Gadget.
Biography
Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way it is transforming our lives for better and for worse.
Jaron Lanier
Who Owns The Future?
Current price: EUR 11.57
