Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Contributor(s) : Lanier, Jaron (Author)
A timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer. Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms.
Publisher : Picador USA
Pub Date : August 27, 2019
ISBN : 9781250239082
Binding : Paperback
BISAC Categories : Computers | Internet | Social Media
Jaron Lanier is a scientist, musician, and writer best known for his work in virtual reality and his advocacy of humanism and sustainable economics in a digital context. His 1980s start-up VPL Research created the first commercial VR products and introduced avatars, multi-person virtual world experiences, and prototypes of major VR applications such as surgical simulation. His books Who Owns the Future? and You Are Not a Gadget were international bestsellers, and Dawn of the New Everything was named a 2017 best book of the year by The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Vox.
