It’s, well, I don’t mean It’s like a total, you know, a totalism kind of thing, whatever it’s called.

Both musicians have been identified with a musical style known as “totalism,” which they pioneered in the 1980s and 1990s as part of a reaction to Minimalism.

Now, in his impassioned new book “You Are Not a Gadget,” Mr. Lanier expands this thesis further, looking at the implications that digital Maoism or “cybernetic totalism” have for our society at large.