Who owns the future?

Jaron Lanier
Book - 2013

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.

Saved in:

Holdings -

Central

Barcode Status Material Type CallNumber Availability
37413314587272 Available Non-fiction 303.4833 LANIER  Place a Hold
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lanier, Jaron
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 i 4500
001 488603
005 20130727143900.0
008 130308s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 |a  2013007987 
020 |a 9781451654967 (hardcover) 
020 |a 1451654960 (hardcover) 
035 |a (OCoLC)829937196 
040 |a DLC  |b eng  |e rda  |c DLC  |d YDX  |d OCLCO  |d ZS3  |d JQM  |d YDXCP  |d CDX  |d OCLCQ  |d UAG 
042 |a pcc 
049 |a UAGA 
082 0 0 |a 303.48/33  |2 23 
092 0 |a 303.4833 LANIER 
100 1 |a Lanier, Jaron. 
245 1 0 |a Who owns the future? /  |c Jaron Lanier. 
250 |a First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b Simon & Schuster,  |c 2013. 
300 |a xvi, 396 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 24 cm 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Information technology  |x Economic aspects. 
650 0 |a Technological innovations  |x Economic aspects. 
650 0 |a Economics. 
998 |a 2013.05.14 
999 f f |i 2c5b61fa-ad53-58b7-8d20-3eaaed93bcd2  |s a3ac8297-64ff-5ccf-bfee-e5d2817e31d4  |t 0 
952 f f |p Standard Circulation  |a City of Spokane  |b Spokane Public Library  |c Branches  |d Central  |t 0  |e 303.4833 LANIER  |h Dewey Decimal classification  |i Non-fiction  |j None  |m 37413314587272