From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
Quercus Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-85738-426-3 (ISBN)
Our society has gone through a weird, unremarked transition: once a novelty, the Net is now something that we take for granted, like mains electricity or running water. In the process we've been surprisingly incurious about its significance or cultural implications. How has our society become dependent on a utility that it doesn't really understand? John Naughton has distilled the noisy chatter surrounding the internet's relentless evolution into nine clear-sighted areas of understanding. In doing so he affords everyone the requisite knowledge to make better use of the technologies and networks around us, as well as highlighting some of their more disturbing implications.
John Naughton is Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is also the Observer's 'Networker' columnist and a prominent blogger at memex.naughtons.org. His last book was A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet.
Prologue: 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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.8.2012 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 196 mm |
| Gewicht | 300 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-85738-426-0 / 0857384260 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-85738-426-3 / 9780857384263 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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