# Jaron Lanier, in his book Who Owns the Future, presents a similar but
substantially darker model of…

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Jaron Lanier, in his book _Who Owns the Future_ , presents a similar but
substantially darker model of fully-automated luxury capitalism (based on the
assumption that the ad-tech ecosystem will never come down to earth). Lainer’s
‘solution’ (using Xanadu-style transcopyright to bring about a return to
1970s-style luxury middle class living at a larger scale) seems naive to me
(how do we do that without UBI?), but even as Lanier comes off as naively
bougie he’s still a compellingly deep thinker outside his blind spots.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [August 1,
2019](https://medium.com/p/abf28fba0b13).

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