Jaron Lanier Book Review

Jaron Lanier Book Review. Jaron lanier is a very smart guy; Penrose’s book reminds me of maxwell’s treatise on electricity and magnetism, being a mixture of ingenious physical ideas and really awful mathematical methods.

And, in the process you might also become a jaron lanier fan, as i have. By jaron lanier ‧ release date: Much of what he says, most of us already know.

It gives us that easy dopamine rush whenever we post, like, or scroll.

So it was good to finally finish the book and understand his view that, as things are currently progressing, what he terms siren servers (such as amazon, google, facebook) will own the future. So, in this brief polemic, writes the author. But i'm not sure that i'll buy this book as i find it a rather depressing scenario that i think has a decent chance of eventuating. Lanier is very concerned with the way social media manipulates people.