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You are not a gadget : a manifesto / Jaron Lanier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Penguin, ©2011Description: xiii, 223 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780141049113 Paperback
Subject(s): Summary: Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual creativity. There were more places to express ourselves than ever before... yet no one really had anything to say. Does this have to be our future? Showing us the way to a future where individuals mean more than machines, this is a searing manifesto against mass mediocrity, a creative call to arms - and an impassioned defence of the human.
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Includes a new afterword to the paperback edition.

Originally published: New York : Alfred Knopf, 2010. First published in Great Britain: London : Allen Lane, 2010.

Includes index.

Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual creativity. There were more places to express ourselves than ever before... yet no one really had anything to say. Does this have to be our future? Showing us the way to a future where individuals mean more than machines, this is a searing manifesto against mass mediocrity, a creative call to arms - and an impassioned defence of the human.

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