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

3.0

It was a real education listening to You are Not a Gadget and Prattchett's Going Postal at the same time. The author of the first could have been a character in the second. Lanier talks an awful lot about cephalopods, but he does pinpoint problems with the way we use computers and how to potentially solve them. I appreciate his philosophy that nothing computers do is meaningful until a human interacts with it. My biggest criticism of the book (aside from the part about cuttlefish) is its lack of coherence. It's more like a series of blog articles, which I think that undermines Lanier's point.