Description
Book SynopsisAccessible guide to the effect - good and bad - of the internet on our everyday lives.
Trade Review'A fantastic read and a marvel of economy ... This is the kind of primer you want to slide under your boss's door' Cory Doctorow, Observer. * Cory Doctorow, Observer *
'An accessible guide to the Internet, which covers the nine need-to-know ideas about its cultural significance' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *
Table of ContentsPrologue: Why this book? Take the long view. The web is not the Net. For the Net, disruption is a feature, not a bug. Think ecology, not just economics. Complexity is the new reality. The network is now the computer. The Web is evolving. Copyrights and 'copywrongs': or why our Intellectual Property regime no longer makes sense. Orwell vs Huxley: the bookends of our networked future? Epilogue. Appendix. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Notes. Index.
