A review by michelleofatime
You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier

4.0

The main thesis statement seems to be that Lanier is really into cephalopods, and group-think is mostly scary, but not always. Don't get me wrong ---- I found this book continuously fascinating, but it seemed that he could have done without the apologetics. I can't tell you how many times he spent an entire chapter explaining why he thought "_____" was bad, only to say, at the very end of the chapter, that he alllways think "_____" is bad, and it's not like he hates the internet or anything, etc. However, it remains a relatively jargon-free, in-depth examination of the "cloud"'s often unquestioned power.