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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Technology can become trapped in its first design and block future innovation.
Chapter 3: Our habit of worshiping technology leads us to undervalue human individuality.
Chapter 4: The internet’s open culture slices original works into interchangeable bits – ignoring the original author.
Chapter 5: People today mistakenly prize collective intelligence above the merits of individuals.
Chapter 6: Online anonymity fosters an unfriendly, unproductive environment that fuels mob behavior.
Chapter 7: The internet’s structure favors consumers and platforms like Facebook and Google – not the creators.
Chapter 8: Crowd-sourcing content and information can be dangerous, and it cheapens creativity.
Chapter 9: As technology replaces jobs, society may divide into a rich tech-owning elite and an impoverished majority.
Chapter 10: We still have time to shape better technology that safeguards human intelligence and individuality.
Description
You Are Not a Gadget (2010) examines why the internet tends to glorify the hive-mind and devalue the individual. Serving as both a history lesson of the web’s origins and a warning of the future consequences of its current path, this book illuminates the hidden design of the web.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in learning about how technology shapes the way we view the world
- Anyone interested in how the internet is devaluing the idea of intellectual property