Lanier hat den Begriff der "Virtuellen Realität" erfunden. Das World Wide Web bedroht, vermindert, zerstört das kollektive wie das individuelle Leben und damit greift das Internet in alle Aspekte unseres Lebens ein.
In YOU ARE NOT A GADGET digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how recent developments in our culture are deadening personal interaction, stifling genuine inventiveness and even changing us as people. Showing us the way to a future where individuals mean more than machines, this is a searing manifesto against mass mediocrity, a creative call to arms - and an impassioned defence of the human.
