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Lanier and the Case for Moonshot Thinking  Perhaps you have a
coworker with a tendency toward oddball musings that everyone
tolerates because he’s exceptionally intelligent and generally
confines his weirdness to the lunch hour. Now let’s imagine he
embraces his ruminative streak, and after spending a month at an
Indonesian ashram he gives a speech to the whole office that
contains the sentence “Don’t you see what’s happening here?”
Jaron Lanier is that coworker. Only he’s operating on a larger
scale.   In his new book, Who Owns the Future?, Lanier is not
foretelling the slow collapse of one company but of the entire
edifice of capitalism in the technological era. It’s not
entirely clear whether he should be redirecting the course of
society or handing out pamphlets on a