You are not a gadget

I read this book 8 years after it was published and it is still fresh. It was the first time I read a book by Jaron Lanier and I found it surprisingly humanistic. I mean, it was the first time I was in contact with a more philosophical way of thinking about technology and how it can (or cannot) express human emotions and identity. I learned a lot!
My favorite piece was the description of virtual reality from the author's point of view in the 80's and how VR makes us conscious of our own consciousnesses.