You Are Not A Gadget Av Jaron Lanier

<p><B>In <I>You are Not a Gadget </I>digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how the internet is deadening personal interaction, stifling genuine inventiveness and even changing us as people.</B><br><br> Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual creativity. There were more places to express ourselves than ever before... yet no one really had anything to say.<br><br> Does this have to be our future?<br><br> Showing us the way to a future where individuals mean more than machines, this is a searing manifesto against mass mediocrity, a creative call to arms - and an impassioned defence of the human.<br><br> ''A provocative and sure-to-be-controversial book ... Lucid, powerful and persuasive''<br/>  <I>The New York Times</I><br><br> ''There is hardly a page that does not contain some fascinating provocation'' <br/>  <I>Guardian</I><br><br> ''Short and frightening ...