Move fast and break things : how Facebook, Google and Amazon have cornered culture and what it means for all of us
Taplin, Jonathan T.2017
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Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising. Those that create the content - the artists, writers and musicians - are finding they can no longer survive in this unforgiving economic landscape. But it didn't have to be this way. This is the story of how a small number of ideologically driven libertarians took the utopian ideal of the internet and turned it into the copyright-mauling, competition-destroying, human-hating nightmare it has become. Their revolution began with a simple premise: to conquer the world, they would steal the value of art (as well as the value of everything else of importance to human beings) from its creators.
Main title:
Author:
Taplin, Jonathan T., author
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2017.
Collation:
x, 307 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781509847693 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
303.483303.483 TAP
Language:
English
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BRN:
1920243
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