Author:
Naughton, John (John J.)
Imprint:New York : Quercus, 2014.
Descriptionxvii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Take the long view -- The web is not the net -- For the net, disruption is a feature not a bug -- Think ecology, nit just economics -- Complexity is the new reality -- The network is now the computer -- The web is evolving -- Copyrights or "copywrongs": or why our intellectual proiperty regime no longer makes sense -- Orwell vs Huxley: the bookends of our networked future?.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-278) and index.
Note:A history of the Internet traces its rise from a technology novelty to the essential utility of the Information Age, to consider how society takes for granted a basic component that it barely understands, distilling the Internet's evolution into nine essential areas of understanding to lend insight into the information economy and how it can be more effectively used.
