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# Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

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    Tries to Answer Questions We Need to Ask
  

*by P***C on Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016*

This book is a collection of entries on the ever-increasing speed of advances in computing, networks and other technologies. Because the chapters are adapted from writings spanning a decade or more, they reflect on developments while they occurred, giving a unique perspective to the insights; often correcting urban myths that are generated by the captains of industry/technology to mythologized themselves and their intent. The author presents a birds eye view of the Internet and casts away our the illusion that it grants extended control over our lives. He sees it as a useful appliance, but also a method of corporate control; our feeling of agency is unreal. Instead, it turns us into tools of manipulation and means of wealth accumulation for the elite. The Internet is not something we consume.  Instead, we are  "sharecroppers"; means of production providing things to be harvested for the enrichment of elites. Rather than consumers, we are the ones consumed; our attention, our illusion of choice, and any delusion of seeing objective representations of the real world. In the past, purveyors of information relied on parochialism to narrow our view of the world. Current internet moguls rely on the illusion of a global view to enhance a parochial view.  The wider angle only funnels us into cramped corridors that shuffle us closer to retailers. Instead of a wide angled view of the world, the Internet is a convex two-way mirror. Objects appear larger to us while we are made smaller and more easily captured by those on the other side peering at us.  Thus, we are delivered on a platter to people who pay the moguls to obtain us;  it's is a modern slave trading operation with a virtual illusion of never having been snatched away from our own lives.Anyone watching people on the street can witness this enslavement as people exercise, jog, push strollers, commute, walk their dogs, attend recitals, or eat at restaurants; all with their heads bowed in irreverent homage to their new master, with little attention allotted to where they are, what they are doing, or who they are with. We are all now the people that 1984 Apple Super Bowl commercial for the first Mac; mesmerized, narcotizad and available for harvesting by the techno-elite.

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    A valuable critical guide to Cyberutopia
  

*by R***Z on Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2016*

This is a fine read: ingenious, nicely written, full of insights and humor. I enjoyed it thoroughly and, particularly, the following paragraph inspired me: "The millions of people who write ...book reviews for Amazon don't get paid for their labor, but the content they create is a valuable asset for the companies.It's a modern kind of sharecropping system." ( pg. 29 of the Kindle edition)A thought that speaks for itself !

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    The clearest thinker on technology and society delights
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2016*

This was one of the best books I have read in years. Anyone who is interested in the role of technology, particularly information technology, in our lives and it's threats and limitations - as well as potential, this is as good of a read as you will find. Carr is a masterful writer, a great researcher and clear thinker. He's not 'drank the cool-aid' of the tech world, but knows what it smells like.

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