Move Fast and Break Things : How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy /
Jonathan Taplin.
- First Edition
- x, 308 pages : 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and index.
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.
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.
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