Search results
Who Owns the Future? a non-fiction book written by Jaron Lanier published by Simon & Schuster in 2013. The book was well received and won multiple awards in 2014: Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Goldsmith Book Prize, and Top honors at the San Francisco Book Festival.
Mar 7, 2013 · A book review and rating site for Who Owns the Future?, a nonfiction book by Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist and author. The book critiques digital networks and argues for an alternative information economy that rewards ordinary people.
- (3.6K)
- Hardcover
Lanier, a scientist and musician, argues that our economy and society are threatened by the concentration of money and power in digital networks. He proposes an alternative information economy that rewards ordinary people for their online contributions.
- Paperback
- March 04, 2014
Mar 4, 2014 · 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...
- 231
- 217
- 245
May 5, 2013 · “Who Owns the Future?” reiterates some ideas in Mr. Lanier’s first book: that Web businesses exploit a peasant class, that users of social media may not realize how entrapped they are, that a...
Mar 4, 2014 · 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.
- Jaron Lanier
May 7, 2013 · 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.
- Jaron Lanier
