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Author:

Taplin, Jonathan T, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

LittleBrown and Company,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Internet--Social aspects.
Information society.
Electronic commerce.
Music and the Internet.
Art and the Internet.
Literature and the Internet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0316275778
9780316275774

OCLC:

(OCoLC)981760522

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