You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (Vintage) – $200
by rgonzalezr
For the most part, Web 2.0–Internet technologies that encourage interactivity, customization, and participation–is hailed as an emerging Golden Age of information sharing and collaborative achievement, the strength of democratized wisdom. Jaron Lanier isn’t buying it. In You Are Not a Gadget, the longtime tech guru/visionary/dreadlocked genius (and progenitor of virtual reality) argues the opposite: that unfettered–and anonymous–ability to comment results in cynical mob behavior, the shouting-down of reasoned argument, and the devaluation of individual accomplishment. Lanier traces the roots of […]
Categories: Cultura, Tecnología • Tags: cultura, Internet, manifesto tech guru, paradigmas de la tecnologìa, tecnologìa, Web, Web 2.0, Wired magazine