5.12.2013
You Are Not a Gadget
Overall Grade: B
Worth reading for those that know a fair bit about computers and the internet. Lanier makes his case that certain ways that computer interfaces and software have developed have become "locked-in" and define the very way we think and interact with computers. Furthermore, though those designs were picked to fit one expediency or another, some of them reduce their users to less than human parts in their functioning. Lanier calls us to be wary of treating people like gadgets and of the uncreative, trollish stupor that's becoming prevalent on the internet.
Labels: genre: non-fiction, media: book
