Diez razones para borrar tus redes sociales de inmediato / Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Diez razones para borrar tus redes sociales de inmediato / Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Author: Jaron Lanier

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2018-12-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 8499929176

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Un brillante manifiesto que llama a la acción para comenzar a reinventar Internet. ¿Te cuesta imaginar una vida sin redes sociales? ¿Y si te dieran 10 argumentos explicando la toxicidad de sus efectos? En este libro, Jaron Lanier nos explica con una contundencia abrumadora como las redes sociales, al desplegar una vigilancia constante y manipular el inconsciente de sus usuarios, nos están convirtiendo en personas rencorosas, tristes, asustadizas, poco empáticas, aisladas y triviales. Si quieres una vida más feliz, un mundo más justo y pacífico, o simplemente la oportunidad de pensar por ti mismo sin ser monitoreado e influenciado por las corporaciones más ricas de la historia, lo mejor que puedes hacer es cancelar tus cuentas. Ahora. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer. You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms. Lanier’s reasons for freeing ourselves from social media’s poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people even as we are more “connected” than ever, to rob us of our free will with relentless targeted ads. How can we remain autonomous in a world where we are under continual surveillance and are constantly being prodded by algorithms run by some of the richest corporations in history that have no way of making money other than being paid to manipulate our behavior? How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom? Lanier remains a tech optimist, so while demonstrating the evil that rules social media business models today, he also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us toward a richer and fuller way of living and connecting with our world.

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Author: Jaron Lanier

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1250196698

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AS SEEN IN THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY THE SOCIAL DILEMMA A WIRED "ALL-TIME FAVORITE BOOK" A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK "THE CONSCIENCE OF SILICON VALLEY"- GQ “Profound . . . Lanier shows the tactical value of appealing to the conscience of the individual. In the face of his earnest argument, I felt a piercing shame about my own presence on Facebook. I heeded his plea and deleted my account.” - Franklin Foer, The New York Times Book Review “Mixes prophetic wisdom with a simple practicality . . . Essential reading.” - The New York Times (Summer Reading Preview) You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms. Lanier’s reasons for freeing ourselves from social media’s poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people even as we are more “connected” than ever, to rob us of our free will with relentless targeted ads. How can we remain autonomous in a world where we are under continual surveillance and are constantly being prodded by algorithms run by some of the richest corporations in history that have no way of making money other than being paid to manipulate our behavior? How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom? Lanier remains a tech optimist, so while demonstrating the evil that rules social media business models today, he also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us toward a richer and fuller way of living and connecting with our world.

Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Durkheim, Pareto, Weber
Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Durkheim, Pareto, Weber

Author: Raymond Aron

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780765804365

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In this second volume of Main Currents of Sociological Thought, Raymond Aron continues the analysis, begun in the first volume, of the "great doctrines of historical sociol-ogy." Aron explores the work of three figures who profoundly shaped sociology as it entered the twentieth century: Emile Durkheim, the great French theorist of consensus, who continued Auguste Comte's quest for a science of society and a scientific validation of morality; Vilfredo Pareto, the Italian "neo-Machiavellian" who mocked traditional mo-rality and humanitarian pretensions and emphasized the oligarchic or elitist character of all societies; and the German sociologist Max Weber, who reflected continuously on the relationship between science and action, filled with deep foreboding about the pros-pects for human freedom in an age marked by bureaucratization and rationalization. Aron presents rich portraits of these three thinkers, drawing from them what remains of enduring worth, even as he distances himself from Durkheim's project for a science of society, Pareto's exaggerated critique of humanitarianism, and Weber's tragic pessimism. Aron's book is essential for clarifying his profound indebtedness to and crucial divergences from the thought of Max Weber, the sociologist par excellence, in Aron's view. Together with volume 1, which treats the work of Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, and Tocqueville, it forms the definitive survey of the great social thinkers to date. Yet, as Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson explain in their introduction, Main Currents is more than a survey; it is above all a challenge to contemporary social science to retain the ambition of an older, philosophically informed sociology to present an interpretation of modern society and to reflect on the meaning of universal history.

Dawn of the New Everything
Dawn of the New Everything

Author: Jaron Lanier

Publisher: Henry Holt

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1627794093

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The Microsoft interdisciplinary scientist largely credited with popularizing virtual reality reflects on his lifelong relationship with technology, showing VR's ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species and how the brain and body connect to the world. By the author of You Are Not a Gadget. --Publisher.

Dawn of the New Everything
Dawn of the New Everything

Author: Jaron Lanier

Publisher: Arrow

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781784701536

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The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology. Bridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside the human body, Jaron Lanier has written a three-pronged adventure into 'virtual reality', by exposing its ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species.

Diez razones para borrar tus redes sociales de inmediato
Diez razones para borrar tus redes sociales de inmediato

Author: Jaron Lanier

Publisher: DEBATE

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 8499929257

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Un brillante manifiesto que llama a la acción para comenzar a reinventar Internet. ¿Te cuesta imaginar una vida sin redes sociales? ¿Y si te dieran diez razones que te convencieran de la toxicidad de sus efectos? En este libro Jaron Lanier, el hombre que acuñó el término "realidad virtual" y uno de los padres fundadores de la web 2.0, nos explica con una contundencia abrumadora cómo las redes sociales están convirtiéndonos en personas rencorosas, tristes, asustadizas, poco empáticas, aisladas y triviales. Todo ello debido a la tendencia de las redes a sacar lo peor de nosotros, a convertir la política en algo terrorífico, a engañarnos con ilusiones de popularidad y éxito, a cambiar nuestra relación con la verdad, a desconectarnos de la gente, aunque estemos más conectados que nunca, y a coartar nuestra libertad con implacables anuncios especialmente dirigidos. Si quieres una vida más feliz, un mundo más justo y pacífico, o simplemente la oportunidad de pensar por ti mismo sin ser monitoreado e influenciado por las corporaciones más ricas de la historia, lo mejor que puedes hacer es cancelar tus cuentas. Ahora. Reseñas: «Jaron Lanier es un genio.» Sunday Times «Mezcla sabiduría profética con una simple practicidad. Lectura esencial.» The New York Times «El título lo dice todo... Lanier aboga por desanclarse de las redes sociales, que fomentan la adicción y la anomia y en general nos hacen sentir peor y más temerosos el uno del otro y del mundo. El experimento podría ser útil, aunque oscurecerá los corazones de los señores oscuros, un argumento ganador por sí mismo.» Kirkus Reviews

The Future of Public Space
The Future of Public Space

Author: Amy Gill

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781942884163

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Routine discussions on public space typically omit a gamut of possibilities ripe for critical discussion. This book, the latest in the SOM Thinkersseries, aims to address these questions. Here, Rachel Monroe challenges American preconceptions of the wild, wide-open West by addressing issues of surveillance; the series' first fictional piece, by China Miéville, covers an under-examined area of public space under the guise of detective fiction; a study of public art by Ben Davis sheds light on the myths and stigmas that have accrued to public art, also asking what it can become; Christopher DeWolf shares a sensory navigation trip through a directionless Hong Kong; Michelle Nijhuis writes on the shifting ecologies of national parks; Sarah Fecht explores architecture and social life beyond Earth; while Jaron Lanier meditates on the idea of public space online, linking the prevailing, free-for-all model of the internet with a characteristically American yearning for freedom and repudiation of rules and structure. Also included are examples of public art works by Lawrence Weiner.

Insights on Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Insights on Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Author: Swift Reads

Publisher: Swift Books LLC

Published: 2020-11-14

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13:

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Download now to get key insights from this book in 15 minutes. You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them. In his important new audiobook, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms behind before it’s too late. Lanier’s reasons for freeing ourselves from social media’s poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people even as we are more “connected” than ever, to rob us of our free will with relentless targeted ads. How can we remain autonomous in a world where we are under continual surveillance and are constantly being prodded by algorithms run by some of the richest corporations in history that have no way of making money other than being paid to manipulate our behavior? How could the “benefits” of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom? Lanier remains a tech optimist, so while demonstrating the evil that rules social media business models today, he also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us towards richer and fuller way of living and connecting with our world.

Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary

Author: Dorothy Richmond

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2007-05-21

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 0071510621

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Building on the success of her prior book, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses, author Dorothy Devney Richmond helps learners attain a strong working vocabulary, no matter if they are absolute beginners or intermediate students of the language. She combines her proven instruction techniques and clear explanations with a plethora of engaging exercises, so students are motivated and hardly notice that they are absorbing so much Spanish. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary also includes basic grammar and structures of the language to complement learners’ newly acquired words. "Vocabulary Builders" help students add to their Spanish repertoire by using cognates, roots, suffixes, prefixes, and other "word-building" tools.

Disabled Widows
Disabled Widows

Author: Donald T. Ferron

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13:

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Report and compilation of statistical tables resulting from a survey of the handicapped (disabled person), undertaken in 1966 by the social security administration, on demographic aspects and health-related characteristics of handicapped widowed married women in the USA, together with information on their eligibility to receive disability benefits.