In an interview, Lanier says, "If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, ... information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship... you throw out information because you lose the provenance, and then you need a search engine to figure it out again. That's part of why Google can exist. Ah, the perversity of it all just gets to me."

How does Lanier propose to change this situation In Who Owns the Future?