Who Owns The Future?
- Author: Jaron Lanier
- Narrator: Pete Simonelli
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 12:00:55
Synopsis
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.
Chapters
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 001 Open
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 002 Prelude
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 003 Part 1 Chapter 1 a
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 004 Chapter 1 b
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 005 Chapter 1 c
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 006 Chapter 1 d
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 007 Chapter 1 e
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 008 Chapter 1 f
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 009 Chapter 1 g
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 010 Chapter 1 h
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 011 Chapter 1 i
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 012 Chapter 1 j
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 013 Chapter 1 k
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 014 Chapter 2 a
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 015 Chapter 2 b
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 016 Chapter 2 c
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 017 First Interlude a
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 018 First Interlude b
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 019 First Interlude c
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WhoOwnsTheFuture 020 Part 2 Chapter 3 a
Duration: 06min