The \u201cbrilliant\u201d and \u201cdaringly original\u201d (The New York Times<\/i>) critique of digital networks from the \u201cDavid Foster Wallace of tech\u201d (London Evening Standard<\/i>)\u2014asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.<\/b><\/p>\n
Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world\u2019s most brilliant thinkers.\u00a0Who Owns the Future?<\/i>\u00a0is 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2014including social media, financial institutions, and intelligence agencies\u2014now threaten to destroy it.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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