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