Dawn Of The New Everything

Author : Jaron Lanier
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
ISBN 13 : 1627794093
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dawn of the New Everything written by Jaron Lanier and published by Henry Holt & Company. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guru of virtual reality looks back at the unique experiences that formed his vision for the future of technology With a singular voice and perspective, Lanier who The New York Times calls "daringly original . . . a major wizard in the futurist circus. He is the father of virtual reality in the gaudy, reputation-burnishing way that Michael Jackson was the king of pop" considers the future of virtual technology in a book that blends memoir with ideas. He tells the wild story of his own relationship with technology by starting from the beginning. The son of Jewish immigrants and concentration camp survivors, raised in the UFO territory of New Mexico, he lost his mother at a young age and built a geodesic dome with his father in the desert. He worked as a goatherd and midwife, attended college before graduating high school, transferred to and failed out of a tony northeast liberal arts college, played music for money on the streets of New York, and eventually landed in Silicon Valley at the dawn of the first tech boom where he suddenly became rich. This crazy course to becoming a world renowned technology guru informs Lanier's optimism about virtual reality--the technology he has been immersed in from its very start. While he has been very critical of social media and other manifestations of technology, he believes that virtual reality can actually make our lives richer and fuller.Dawn of the New Everything is ultimately a look at what it means to be human in the dawn of unprecedented technological possibility.

Author : Jaron Lanier
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1627794107
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dawn of the New Everything written by Jaron Lanier and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology Bridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside the human body, Dawn of the New Everything is a look at what it means to be human at a moment of unprecedented technological possibility. Through a fascinating look back over his life in technology, Jaron Lanier, an interdisciplinary scientist and father of the term “virtual reality,” exposes VR’s ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species, and gives readers a new perspective on how the brain and body connect to the world. An inventive blend of autobiography, science writing, philosophy and advice, this book tells the wild story of his personal and professional life as a scientist, from his childhood in the UFO territory of New Mexico, to the loss of his mother, the founding of the first start-up, and finally becoming a world-renowned technological guru. Understanding virtual reality as being both a scientific and cultural adventure, Lanier demonstrates it to be a humanistic setting for technology. While his previous books offered a more critical view of social media and other manifestations of technology, in this book he argues that virtual reality can actually make our lives richer and fuller.

Author : Jaron Lanier
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9781784701536
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dawn of the New Everything written by Jaron Lanier and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology. Bridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside the human body, Jaron Lanier has written a three-pronged adventure into 'virtual reality', by exposing its ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species.

Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721106
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dawn of Everything written by David Graeber and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations

Author : Jacob Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Dispensation at the Dawn of the Twenthieth Century ... written by Jacob Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dawn of a New Religious Era written by Paul Carus and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dawn of a New Era and Other Essays written by Paul Carus and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abbie Daniels Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dawn of the New Era written by Abbie Daniels Mason and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Dawn of a New Constructive Era," written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret McGilvary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dawn of a New Era in Syria written by Margaret McGilvary and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: