Category: Books

Syncing books, rising texts

Post author By The Publishers
Post date February 5, 2019
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Getting back to the text with ebooks There must be a name in business school for the curve of ebook reading v. real books, for the shape that flares up at the beginning for individual readers, drops way down, possibly to zero, and then gradually climbs back a bit to some lower, steady level, like […]

Jaron Lanier’s “Metahuman Determinism” and Motherless Heroes

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Post date April 20, 2016
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There are lots of things to think about in Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not a Gadget. In fact, one of least successful elements of the book is its title, which implies a much more circumscribed and traditional anti-technology, anti-smartphone argument, when in fact the book is way different, way larger. Cognition is easy Lanier’s […]