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A review by rick2
You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
4.0
Very interesting. Jaron is a great communicator and a brilliant guy.
I struggled a bit with the level of abstraction the book uses to explain and predict concepts. It’s a necessary evil if you don’t want to get bogged down with technical details. But at times it felt like rounding the corners of concepts changed the concept itself.
Still, for a book written about technology in 2010, it’s incredibly impressive how much is still directly relevant in 2021.
I struggled a bit with the level of abstraction the book uses to explain and predict concepts. It’s a necessary evil if you don’t want to get bogged down with technical details. But at times it felt like rounding the corners of concepts changed the concept itself.
Still, for a book written about technology in 2010, it’s incredibly impressive how much is still directly relevant in 2021.