Who Owns the Future?

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Sharing wealth in digital age

"Who Owns the Future?" is a must-read to understand the new power paradigm created by the digital revolution. Lanier highlights how the information economy ruins markets and concentrates wealth, leading to a collapse in living standards for the majority. He proposes a more humane reality, where risk and reward are shared equally, allowing for a more democratic information economy. This eye-opening read is perfect for those who want to learn about the impact of digital technologies on society and explore alternative futures.

  • Goldsmith Book Prize for Trade (2014)
  • San Francisco Book Festival for Business & Grand Prize Winner (2014)
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Who Owns the Future?

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ISBN: 9781846145223
Authors: Jaron Lanier
Publisher: Allen Lane
Date of Publication: 2013-03-07
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.78
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The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening Standard)—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is 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.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—including social media, financial institutions, and intelligence agencies—now threaten to destroy it.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.
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"Who Owns the Future?" is a must-read to understand the new power paradigm created by the digital revolution. Lanier highlights how the information economy ruins markets and concentrates wealth, leading to a collapse in living standards for the majority. He proposes a more humane reality, where risk and reward are shared equally, allowing for a more democratic information economy. This eye-opening read is perfect for those who want to learn about the impact of digital technologies on society and explore alternative futures.

  • Goldsmith Book Prize for Trade (2014)
  • San Francisco Book Festival for Business & Grand Prize Winner (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.