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From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg : what you really need to know about the internet / John Naughton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Quercus, c2012.Description: 373 p : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780857384256
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 004.67/809 23
LOC classification:
  • TK5105.875.I57 N39 2012
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Contents:
Prologue : why this book? --Take the long view -- The Web is not the Net -- For the Net, disruption is a feature, not a bug -- Think ecology, not just economics -- Complexity is the new reality -- The network is now the computer -- The Web is evolving -- Copyrights and "copywrongs," or, Why our intellectual property regime no longer makes sense -- Orwell vs. Huxley : the bookends of our networked future? -- Epilogue.
Summary: A history of the Internet traces its rise from a technological 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.Other editions: Reproduction of (work): Naughton, John (John J.) From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
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Includes bibliography and index.

Prologue : why this book? --Take the long view -- The Web is not the Net -- For the Net, disruption is a feature, not a bug -- Think ecology, not just economics -- Complexity is the new reality -- The network is now the computer -- The Web is evolving -- Copyrights and "copywrongs," or, Why our intellectual property regime no longer makes sense -- Orwell vs. Huxley : the bookends of our networked future? -- Epilogue.

A history of the Internet traces its rise from a technological 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.

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