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viniciusmacedo's review against another edition
5.0
Uma obra totalmente fora dos padrões que de forma clara te mostra os desafios e problemas presentes em redes sociais. Reflexões fundamentais a quem vivem em um mundo conectado.
outcolder's review against another edition
4.0
Picked this up expecting to just skim it, but read it cover-to-cover instead. It’s four years old and most of it has been a part of The Conversation for a while now. I was pretty wigged out when the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. Even after all I read back then, I still was excited by Lanier’s writing about how these platforms manipulate us, make us miserable, and turn us into assholes. At times, his attempts at catchy acronyms and listicles were as much of a turn off as his ill advised hairdo, but his heart is in the right place. His weakest moments are in the short chapter on what he calls “economic dignity.” He’s gone off on that stuff before, in his first two books and elsewhere. For one thing, it’s even worse than he says, with people in the developing world paid fractions of a cent per click to “teach” algorithms how to recognize objects in images, for example. But his solutions are also just about tweaking business models and not tackling the roots. My problems with his economic chapter are summed up by one line of his, “capitalism isn’t supposed to be a zero-sum game,” he writes. Snort. If hours of the zero-sum game Monopoly didn’t teach you otherwise, then I guess read that book by Piketty. The strongest and most interesting is the final chapter, about spirituality or religion. Things I have been grumbling about ever since I translated “Islands in the Cyberstream” are cast in the light of those eternal religious questions and I am intrigued. Phones down, heads up, people. We’ve got to find a way out.
jennifertijssen's review against another edition
2.0
Goede argumenten en goede thesis, maar heel rommelig opgeschreven zonder coherente stijl.
Blij dat de auteur niet anti-tech is, en de argumenten zijn goed doordacht en intelligent, maar de schrijfstijl en wisselende toon (extreem abstract tot droog wetenschappelijk tot heel down-to-earth) maken het een worsteling om doorheen te komen.
Blij dat de auteur niet anti-tech is, en de argumenten zijn goed doordacht en intelligent, maar de schrijfstijl en wisselende toon (extreem abstract tot droog wetenschappelijk tot heel down-to-earth) maken het een worsteling om doorheen te komen.
cdjdhj's review against another edition
4.0
There is a lot of important information in this book that everyone who uses social media needs to read. My main problem with this book is that some of it is very hard to read just because Jaron Lanier, the author, is a "techie" who thinks and writes like a "techie". The information is very much worth slogging through a few difficult sections.
emelye's review
this is not a deep critique of social media. it's kind of a libertarian personal-wellness rant, with ACRONYMs. I understand why it might speak to some readers but it did not speak to me.
Content Warnings
Minor: Bullying
suvata's review against another edition
2.0
It may have been a quick listen (four hours on audio) but I really didn’t enjoy it that much. It was just so-so. I have no intention of quitting social media, so I guess his arguments didn’t convince me.