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Move fast and break things : how Facebook, Google, and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy / Jonathan Taplin.

Van Pelt Library HM851 .T37 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Taplin, Jonathan, 1947- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Internet--Social aspects.
Internet.
Information society.
Electronic commerce.
Music and the Internet.
Art and the Internet.
Literature and the Internet.
Democracy--United States.
Local Subjects:
Democracy--United States.
Physical Description:
x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First Edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and index.
ISBN:
9780316275774
0316275778
9780316508278
0316508276
OCLC:
981760522

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