From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
What You Really Need to Know About the Internet
$40.40
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2012
Summary
Our society has gone through a weird, unremarked transition: once a novelty, the Net is now something that we take for granted, like mains electricity or running water. In the process we’ve been surprisingly incurious about its significance or cultural implications. How has our society become dependent on a utility that it doesn’t really understand?
John Naughton has distilled the noisy chatter surrounding the internet’s relentless evolution into nine clear-sighted areas of understand…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857384263 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0857384260 |
| Author: | John Naughton |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2012 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 26mm |
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‘An accessible guide to the Internet, which covers the nine need-to-know ideas about its cultural significance’ Sunday Times.
‘A fantastic read and a marvel of economy … This is the kind of primer you want to slide under your boss’s door’ Cory Doctorow, Observer. * Cory Doctorow, Observer *‘An accessible guide to the Internet, which covers the nine need-to-know ideas about its cultural significance’ Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *
About The Author
John Naughton
John Naughton is Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is also the Observer’s ‘Networker’ columnist. His last book was A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet.
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