You are not a gadget; a manifesto

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Something went wrong around the start of the 21st century. Individual creativity began to go out of fashion. Music became an endless rehashing of the past. Scientists were in danger of no longer understanding their own research. Machines, specifically computers, were no longer tools to be used by human minds - they were better than humans. Yet what if, by devaluing individuals, we are deadening creativity, endlessly rehashing past culture, risking weaker design in engineering and science, losing democracy, and reducing development - in every sphere? In this book, the author, digital guru, and inventor of Virtual Reality, delivers a manifesto in support of the human and reflects on the good and bad developments in design and thought twenty years after the invention of the web.