Who Owns The Future?

In the prelude and first chapter of Who Owns The Future, Jaron Lanier strives to explain how powerful the influence of technology is becoming in today's society.  Lanier poses the belief that replacing old services or organizations with smarter technology is not always a good thing.  The example in the prelude that caught my eye was how Kodak films was completely wiped away from the industry solely because of Instagram.  Now days people are using technology not only to make their lives more efficient, but instead they are using it to try and replace everyday tasks just because users are lazy.  The mindset today is if you can not do a task on your own, our first instinct would be to search for an app that can, or just "google it."  Books and libraries are soon going to be not as commonly used.  This could be a problem because we are just letting technology take over.  It seems like everyday technology might even be gaining power over us.  Jaron Lanier does a great job of expressing his input and helps us to understand the severity of how booming technology could potentially effect our future.