Sorry for any cross posting... Rob Myers reviews Jaron Lanier's book 'You Are Not A Gadget'. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=392 "Necessary reading for anyone interested in how the Web and the software we use every day are reshaping culture and the marketplace." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times. "Jaron Lanier's book 'You Are Not A Gadget' is a timely polemic, a cry of the soul in an increasingly soulless Web 2.0 world. I found reading it a frustrating and inspiring experience. For every time I wanted to throw the book at the wall in exasperation there was a time where Lanier spoke to a part of me that the cultural transition from 90s cyberpunk to 2010s cyberpreppy had optimised out." Rob Myers. ————> Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood… We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield – online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour – an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. http://www.netbehaviour.org Join Furtherfield.org on Resonance 104.4FM - weekly Broadcasts http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php Furtherfield Blog – shared space for personal reflections on media art practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org VisitorsStudio – real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative ‘many to many’ dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic. http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html Furthernoise – an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org ********** * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE