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Lanier, Jaron

You are not a gadget a manifesto - New Delhi Penguin Group 2010 - ix,209,ip.

CONTENTS
Preface ix
PART ONE
WHAT is a person? 1
Chapter 1
Missing Persons 3
Chapter 2
An Apocalypse of Self-Abdication 24
Chapter 3
The Noosphere Is Just Another Name for Everyone's Inner Troll 45
PART TWO
WHAT WILL Money Be? 73
Chapter 4
Digital Peasant: Chic 77
Chapter 5
The City Is Built to Music 87
Chapter 6
The Lords of the Clouds Renounce Free Will in Order to Become Infinitely Lucky 94
Chapter 7
The Prospects for Humanistic Cloud Economics 100
Chapter 8
Three Possible Future Directions 108
PART THREE
THe unBeaRaBLe THinness OF FLaTness
Chapter 9
RetropoLis 121
Chapter 10
Digital Creativity Eludes Flat Places 133
Chapter JI
All Hail the Membrane 138
PART FOUR
MaKing THe BesT OF BITS 149
Chapter 12
I Am a Contrarian Loop 153
Chapter 13
One Story of How Semantics Might Have Evolved 158
PART FIVE
FUTURe HUMORS 175
Chapter 14
Home at Last (My Love Affair with Bachelardian Neoteny) 179
acknowledgments 195
Index 197



ISBN: 9781846143427

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Dewey Class. No.: 745.441 / LAN