Move fast and break things : how Facebook, Google and Amazon have cornered culture and what it means for all of us /
Taplin, Jonathan T.,
Move fast and break things : how Facebook, Google and Amazon have cornered culture and what it means for all of us / Jonathan Taplin. - London : Macmillan, 2017. - x, 307 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781509847693 (hbk.) : £18.99
Technology and civilization.
Information society.
Social change.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
Technology--Social aspects.
Society.
Business
Move fast and break things : how Facebook, Google and Amazon have cornered culture and what it means for all of us / Jonathan Taplin. - London : Macmillan, 2017. - x, 307 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781509847693 (hbk.) : £18.99
Technology and civilization.
Information society.
Social change.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
Technology--Social aspects.
Society.
Business
