https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Gadget-Manifesto/dp/0307269647/
Lanier discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals.
Lanier also shows:
How 1960s antigovernment paranoia influenced the design of the online world and enabled trolling and trivialization in online discourse
How file sharing is killing the artistic middle class;
How a belief in a technological “rapture” motivates some of the most influential technologists
Why a new humanistic technology is necessary.
Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defense of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.
https://www.amazon.com/You-Target-Laura-Archera-Huxley/dp/0374293805/
You Are Not the Target by Laura Huxley
In this book, the life partner of the famed Aldous Huxley offers practical wisdom on how a human being in a chaotic world can cope with stress, anxiety, competition, and the uncertainty of the times without going to pieces mentally or physically. it offers 33 "recipes" for living, which show you how to change, hoe to influence the elements around you, how to cope successfully with the problems of the inner and outer world.
Lanier discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals.
Lanier also shows:
How 1960s antigovernment paranoia influenced the design of the online world and enabled trolling and trivialization in online discourse
How file sharing is killing the artistic middle class;
How a belief in a technological “rapture” motivates some of the most influential technologists
Why a new humanistic technology is necessary.
Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defense of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.
https://www.amazon.com/You-Target-Laura-Archera-Huxley/dp/0374293805/
You Are Not the Target by Laura Huxley
In this book, the life partner of the famed Aldous Huxley offers practical wisdom on how a human being in a chaotic world can cope with stress, anxiety, competition, and the uncertainty of the times without going to pieces mentally or physically. it offers 33 "recipes" for living, which show you how to change, hoe to influence the elements around you, how to cope successfully with the problems of the inner and outer world.
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| Colin Powell gave a Press Briefing at the United Nations where he explained the Reasons for going to War in Iraq. Traditionally, press briefings are held in front of Picasso's Painting "Guernica" that depicts death from the sky... Powell was proposing starting a war that had a lot of Death from the Sky... SO HE HAD JANITORS COVER THE PAINTING AND HE SPOKE IN FRONT OF A WHITE SHEET. This Image shows what the press conference would have looked like. |
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