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Author
Jaron Lanier
Genre
History & Biography
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3.47 of 5 Votes: 1
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ISBN
0307269647 (ISBN13: 9780307269645)
Language
English
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
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This book started out GREAT (I agreed with so much of his humanist points of view in the beginning!) but towards the end it became a mishmash of weird human evolution junk (my least favorite topic for most people to discuss) and computer science nerd jargon that I found generally a snoozefest. I still highly recommend this book to all; it's important to be critical of the tools you use regularly. It was refreshing (and a little scary) to read about the origins and possible future of the internet as we know it, and to think about the limitations of what I thought was a limitless, exciting platform for communication. Pros:A few good points, such as how culture has frozen now and the past is just remixed, over and over.Good summary of the way culture is now.Cons:The book gets progressively less interesting as you read on.Some points are painfully obvious, and the author seems to be a bit of an idealist. It's mainly all complaints without any solutions.The language is sometimes almost impenetrable and Lanier seems to have trouble linking paragraphs together at times.

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