by Jaron Lanier
Lanier, a computer scientist and early VR pioneer, argues that Silicon Valley's free-services model redistributes wealth upward by monetizing users' data while paying them nothing. The book argues for a micropayments architecture that would restore a middle class by making individuals the owners and sellers of their own digital contributions.
In this collection, Who Owns the Future? references 3 other books and is cited by 1 other book.
It draws on In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, Steve Jobs and The Master Switch.
It’s picked up by A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload.
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The books Lanier references and why each one mattered to the argument.
Levy's In the Plex is cited repeatedly for the Google advertising economics Lanier indicts as the paradigmatic siren server business model
Isaacson's Steve Jobs provides the founder-era context Lanier critiques, contrasting Jobs's product-sales model with the free-services surveillance model that followed
Wu's The Master Switch supplies the information-industries cycle theory Lanier extends to argue that platform consolidation recapitulates earlier communications monopolies
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Newport traces the origin of this book to encountering Jaron Lanier's Who Owns the Future? at a Barnes & Noble in Bethesda in 2015. "Standing there in the aisle, holding the book, a revelation hit me that all at once seemed to clarify the muddled mass of research and intuitions with which I'd been battling: What if work didn't require email?"
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