How long does it take to read Who Owns the Future??
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier takes about 7 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 32 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2013. 411 pages, about 113,025 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic and social trend of our age: the poisonous concentration of money and power in our digital networks. Lanier has predicted how technology will transform our humanity for decades, and his insight has never been more urgently needed. He shows how Siren Servers, which exploit big data and the free sharing of information, led our economy into recession, imperiled personal privacy, and hollowed out the middle class. The networks that define our world—including social media, financial institutions, and intelligence agencies—now threaten to destroy it. But there is an alternative. In this provocative, poetic, and deeply humane book, Lanier charts a path toward a brighter future: an information economy that rewards ordinary people for what they do and share on the web.
Subjects: Ekonomiska aspekter, Informationssamhället, Informationsteknik, Economics, Tekniska innovationer, Technological innovations
