Move Fast and Break Things
How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
BBB Library: Technology and Globalization
ISBN: 978-0316275774
Editorial Review
Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began 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. Jonathan Taplin offers a succinct and powerful history of how online life began to be shaped around the values of the men who founded these companies, including Peter Thiel and Larry Page: overlooking piracy of books, music, and film while hiding behind opaque business practices and subordinating the privacy of individual users in order to create the surveillance-marketing monoculture in which we now live.
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