Title:
Move fast and break things : how Facebook, Google, and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Physical Description:
x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780316275774
Abstract:
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.
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.
Language:
English
