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He has seen their tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people. And he asks: How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom? -- adapted from jacket.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1119929</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1119929</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lanier, Jaron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1119929026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250196682/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now]]></title><description><![CDATA[You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we're better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms. Lanier's reasons for freeing ourselves from social media's poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people even as we are more "connected" than ever, to rob us of our free will with relentless targeted ads. How can we remain autonomous in a world where we are under continual surveillance and are constantly being prodded by algorithms run by some of the richest corporations in history that have no way of making money other than being paid to manipulate our behavior? How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom? Lanier remains a tech optimist, so while demonstrating the evil that rules social media business models today, he also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us toward a richer and fuller way of living and connecting with our world.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1127965</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1127965</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lanier, Jaron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1127965026</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250196699/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=AH</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Owns the Future?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Evaluates the negative impact of digital network technologies on the economy and particularly the middle class, citing challenges to employment and personal wealth while exploring the potential of a new information economy.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C701284</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C701284</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lanier, Jaron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/701284026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781451654967/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Are Not A Gadget]]></title><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C36976</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C36976</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lanier, Jaron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/36976026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Manifesto</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307269645/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=297147711</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Are Not A Gadget]]></title><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C649676</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C649676</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lanier, Jaron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/649676026</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Manifesto</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307593146/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruments of change]]></title><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1008706</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1008706</guid><category><![CDATA[MUSIC_ONLINE]]></category><category><![CDATA[zxx]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lanier, Jaron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1008706026</comments><format>MUSIC_ONLINE</format><subtitle/><language>zxx</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=959982524&amp;upc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now]]></title><description><![CDATA[You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we're better off without them. In his important new audiobook, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms behind before it's too late.Lanier's reasons for freeing ourselves from social media's poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people even as we are more "connected" than ever, to rob us of our free will with relentless targeted ads. How can we remain autonomous in a world where we are under continual surveillance and are constantly being prodded by algorithms run by some of the richest corporations in history that have no way of making money other than being paid to manipulate our behavior? How could the "benefits" of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom? Lanier remains a tech optimist, so while demonstrating the evil that rules social media business models today, he also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us towarda richer and fuller way of living and connecting with our world.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1120811</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1120811</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lanier, Jaron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1120811026</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250301284/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=Matt</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawn of the New Everything]]></title><description><![CDATA["Looking back over his life in technology, Jaron Lanier--the scientist who is said to have either coined or popularized the term virtual reality--exposes VR's ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species and gives readers a new perspective on how the brain and body connect to the world. An inventive blend of autobiography, science writing, philosophy, and advice, Dawn of the New Everything tells the wild story of Lanier's personal and professional life as a scientist. Raised in the UFO territory of New Mexico, Jaron lived with his father in a geodesic dome they built together in the desert after the sudden death of his mother. Attending college at age fourteen, Lanier was immediately hooked on computers, and from then on his life became entwined with technology. He forged an unconventional career path that eventually led him to the early frontier days of Silicon \/alley, where he founded the first VR start-up. An intense and imaginative dreamer, he retained a fierce humanism that continues to guide his innovative work and thought. Understanding virtual reality as being both a scientific and cultural adventure, Lanier demonstrates it to be, in fact, one of the most humanistic settings for technology. In this book, he cautions against certain computational beliefs such as AI, even as he explains the dazzling possibilities of \/R and argues that it can make our lives richer and fuller."--]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1056304</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1056304</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lanier, Jaron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1056304026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781627794091/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which Side of History?]]></title><description><![CDATA["Essays on how technology is affecting democracy, society, and our future. Featuring prominent national voices such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Marc Benioff, Ellen Pao, Ken Auletta, Chelsea Clinton, Tim Wu, Khaled Hosseini, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Jaron Lanier, Willow Bay, Sal Khan, Sherry Turkle, Shoshana Zuboff, Vivek Murthy, Geoffrey Canada, and many more. The essays focus on the extraordinary impact of technology on our privacy, kids and families, race and gender roles, democracy, climate change, and mental health."--]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1276048</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1276048</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1276048026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781797205168/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[In C]]></title><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C823888</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C823888</guid><category><![CDATA[MUSIC_ONLINE]]></category><category><![CDATA[zxx]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Riley, Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/823888026</comments><format>MUSIC_ONLINE</format><subtitle>25th anniversary concert</subtitle><language>zxx</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=609981312&amp;upc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>