Dec 2018

Published: 1 December 2018

You are not a gadget - Jaron Lanier (2010)

If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive.

People will accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other form.

"At the risk of being authoritarian, this is the book I would make compulsory for anyone who is remotely interested in our current world and how we, as humans, need to play a stronger moral role in creating a future that is built on decency and fairness rather than greed and manipulation. It is both inspiring and terrifying in equal measure. Read it and be the change you want to see. Prefer videos to books? Watch Jaron deliver a call to arms against digital collectivism and propose more productive ways technology might interact with our culture.'- Emma Martins