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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Quercus, 2012Description: 373 p. : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0857384252 (pbk.)
  • 9780857384256 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TK 5105.875 N297f 2012
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 -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: John Naughton has broken down discussions regarding the Internet's evolution into 9 accessible areas of understanding. In having done so, he affords readers the requisite knowledge to make better use of the technologies and networks around us, and to see lucidly into their future implications.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) TK 5105.875 N297f 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000109371

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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 -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index.

John Naughton has broken down discussions regarding the Internet's evolution into 9 accessible areas of understanding. In having done so, he affords readers the requisite knowledge to make better use of the technologies and networks around us, and to see lucidly into their future implications.

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