'Fabulous - I couldn't put it down and shouted out Yes! Yes! on many pages... a landmark book that will have people talking and arguing for years into the future' Lee Smolin

Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual creativity. There were more places to express ourselves than ever before... yet no one really had anything to say.

Does this have to be our future ?

In You Are Not A Gadget digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how recent developments in our culture are deadening personal interaction, stifling genuine inventiveness and even changing us as people.

Showing us the way to a future where individuals mean more than machines, this is a searing manifesto against mass mediocrity, a creative call to arms - and an impassioned defence of the human.

'A provocative and sure-to-be-controversial book... Lucid, powerful and persuasive' The New York Times

'There is hardly a page that does not contain some fascinating provocation' Guardian

'Mind-bending, exuberant, brilliant' Washington Post