"Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier ""Jaron Lanier, groundbreaking computer scientist and infectious optimist, is concerned that we are not making the most of ourselves. In Who Owns the Future? he tellingly questions the trajectory of economic value in the information age, and argues that there has been a fundamental misstep in how capitalism has gone digital. For Lanier, late capitalism is not so much exhausted as humiliating: in an automated world, information is more important to the economy than manual labour, and yet we are expected to surrender information generated by or about ourselves – a valuable resource – for free."" ""Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised.  As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers.  What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care.  And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved."" viahttp://www.amazon.com/Who-Owns-Future-Jaron-Lanier/dp/1451654960http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/27/who-owns-future-lanier-reviewhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/17/jaron-lanier-digital-pioneer-rebel"
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