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Lanier, Jaron.
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Information technology -- Economic aspects.
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
Middle class -- Employment.
Middle class -- Economic conditions.
Economics.
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Lanier, Jaron.
Information technology -- Economic aspects.
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
Middle class -- Employment.
Middle class -- Economic conditions.
Economics.
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Who owns the future? / Jaron Lanier.
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Lanier, Jaron.
Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Call #:
303
.4833
L287w
Subjects
Information technology -- Economic aspects.
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
Middle class -- Employment.
Middle class -- Economic conditions.
Economics.
ISBN:
9781451654967 (hc.)
1451654960 (hc.)
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description:
xvi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibligraphical references and index.
Contents:
Motivation -- A simple idea -- Money as seen through the one computer scientist's eyes -- The ad hoc construction of mass dignity -- "Siren servers" -- The specter of the perfect investment -- Some pioneering siren servers -- From below: mass unemployment events -- From above: misusing big data to become ridiculous -- Markets and energy landscapes -- Narcissism -- Story lost -- Coercion on autopilot: specialized network effects -- Obscuring the human element -- Story found -- Complaint is not enough -- Clout must underlie rights, if rights are to persist -- First thought, best thought -- The project -- We need to do better than ad hoc levees -- Some first principles -- Who will do what? -- Big business -- How will we earn and spend -- Risk -- Financial identity -- Inclusion -- The interface to reality -- Creepy -- A stab at mitigating creepiness -- The transition -- Leadership.
Summary:
Computer scientist and musician Jaron Lanier evaluates the negative impact of digital network technologies on the economy and particularly the middle class, citing challenges to employment and personal wealth while exploring the potential of a new information economy.
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