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"You Are Not a Gadget" by Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier coined the term virtual reality, but he's not a cheerleader for technology. In this succinctly devastating manifesto, he explains how computers are altering our culture and our behavior and in the process demolishes the utopian rhetoric of Web 2.0.