by Jaron Lanier · DEBATE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499929170
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In this book, Jaron Lanier, a computer expert, musician, graphic artist, and writer, presents a manifesto that invites reflection on the use of social networks. Lanier argues how these platforms, by deploying constant surveillance and manipulating the unconscious of their users, can turn us into resentful, sad, fearful, unempathetic, isolated, and trivial people. The author encourages us to consider the possibility of canceling our accounts to regain a happier life, a fairer world, and the freedom to think for ourselves.
Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, futurist, and composer. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. In 2006, he began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 has worked at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist.
