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Code of conduct: The relentless march of the algorithm

The Independent - Jan 15, 2012
It's the sort of computerised content aggregation that irks Jaron Lanier, the musician, computer scientist and author of the bestseller You Are Not a Gadget. In the book's preface he writes: "Algorithms will find correlations between my words and ...

Monday Trivia

CableFAX - Jan 9, 2012
Here's today's trivia question: "You Are Not A Gadget" by Jaron Lanier is this CableFAX 100 exec's favorite business or motivational book. Tweet or Facebook us your guesses, folks. Good luck! Friday's answer: ESPN's John Kosner would go see Bruce ...

The False Ideals of the Web

New York Times - Jan 19, 2012
We haven't just weakened Hollywood and old-fashioned publishers. We've weakened ourselves. Jaron Lanier is the author of “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto” and a researcher at Microsoft Research, but these views are his alone.

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You Are Not a Gadget

by: Jaron Lanier

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A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse.
 
Informed by Lanier’s experience and expertise as a computer scientist, .
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Arguing A.I.: The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science

by: Sam Williams
Few scientific topics since the theory of biological evolution have inspired as much controversy as artificial intelligence has. Even now, fifty years after the term first made its appearance in academic journals, many philosophers and more than a few prominent scientists and software programmers dismiss the pursuit of thinking machines as the modern-day equivalent of medieval alchemists’ hunt for the philosopher’s stone-a pursuit based more on faith than on skeptical inquiry.

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Voices from the Edge: Conversations With Jerry Garcia, Ram Dass, Annie Sprinkle, Matthew Fox, Jaron Lanier, & Others

by: David Jay Brown, Rebecca McClen Novick

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