| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 308 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and index. |
| Contents |
The great disruption -- Levon's story -- Tech's counterculture roots -- The libertarian counterinsurgency -- Digital destruction -- Monopoly in the digital age -- Google's regulatory capture -- The social media revolution -- Pirates of the Internet -- Libertarians and the 1 percent -- What it means to be human -- The digital renaissance. |
| Summary |
Tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms, Facebook, Amazon and Google, that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and news industries. |
| Subject(S) |
Internet -- Social aspects.
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Information society.
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Electronic commerce.
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Music and the Internet.
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Art and the Internet.
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Literature and the Internet.
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| ISBN |
9780316275774 |
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0316275778 |
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