by Jaron Lanier · Tapa dura · ISBN 9781847925398
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«Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now» is Jaron Lanier's essay in hardback (160 pages, in English).
Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of virtual reality, argues that social networks are based on surveillance and the manipulation of their users. The book brings together ten arguments for abandoning them: they make us sadder, more anxious, more tribalistic and easier to deceive; they corrupt the truth and weaken our will, and the book proposes an alternative humanist model.
Published in 2018 by Penguin Random House, this work of non-fiction appears in the Technology category.
For those who question the impact of social networks and seek reasoned arguments about privacy, algorithmic manipulation and digital mental health.
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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.
