The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us

The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
ISBN-10
1526607247
ISBN-13
9781526607249
Series
The System
Category
Internet
Pages
289
Language
English
Published
2020-05-14
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
James Ball

Description

The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centers to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. The book sets out on a global journey into the inner workings of the system. From the computer scientists to the cable guys, the billionaire investors to the ad men, the intelligence agencies to the regulators, these are the real-life figures powering the internet and pulling the strings of our society. The author shows how an invention once hailed as a democratizing force has concentrated power in places it already existed - that the system, in other words, remains the same as it did before

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