Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary, offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way technology is transforming lives for better and for worse.

Reviews

"A provocative and sure-to-be-controversial book . . . Lucid, powerful and persuasive. It is necessary reading for anyone interested in how the Web and the software we use every day are reshaping culture and the marketplace."
--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
"Important . . . At the bottom of Lanier's cyber-tinkering is a fundamentally humanist faith in technology, a belief that wisely designed machines can bring us closer together by expanding the possibilities of creative self-expression . . . His mind is a fascinating place to hang out."
--Ben Ehrenreich, "Los Angeles Times"
"Persuasive . . . [Lanier] is the first great apostate of the Internet era."
--David Wallace-Wells, "Newsweek"
"Thrilling and thought-provoking . . . A necessary corrective in the echo chamber of technology debates. "You Are Not a Gadget" challenges many dominant ideologies and poses theoretical questions, the answers to which might start with one bright bulb, but depend o