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Zusatztext 'An accessible guide to the Internet! which covers the nine need-to-know ideas about its cultural significance' Sunday Times. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Accessible guide to the effect, good and bad, of the internet on our everyday lives. Our society has gone through a weird, unremarked transition: once a novelty, the Net is now something that we take for granted. 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. Zusammenfassung Accessible guide to the effect - good and bad - of the internet on our everyday lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
