" I would only recommend this book if you are interested in theories about technology and it's impact on culture. It's a thought provoking take on the big picture, long term risks of current designs and trends with technology (e.g. social networks, crowdsourcing, web 2.0 designs). For example, Moore's law makes a generational culture change slow down because people live longer as technology improves and since generational clocks are tied to outgoing generations more than incoming, it means generational culture shifts will take a lot longer than in the past where each decade or so had it's own culture. Another example is how highly praised crowdsourcing successes like Wikipedia or social networks like Facebook really just dumb us down by removing individuality (your own opinions, your true identity). Lanier worries that we are lowering ourselves to meet computational intelligence while convincing ourselves that technology has reached near-human intelligence. "
— Motasem, 2/5/2014