Googlization of Everything, The: (And Why We Should Worry)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781283277815 (1283277816)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Computer Science,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Internet,
Read For School,
Adult,
Business,
Culture,
Sociology,
Society
This gets a bonus ★ for raising some interesting questions occasionally, but the delivery is terrible. The comparison of Google's rise to power with that of Julius Caesar is an evocative one, though underdeveloped. Similarly, the thesis that by doing nothing (or, too little too late) we allowed car ...
Interesting, provocative, and often quite disturbing. The author does a particularly fine job diuscussing issues of copyright, intellectual property, and privacy clearly and concisely.
"We must build the sort of online ecosystem that can benefit the whole world over the long term, not one that serves the short-term interests of one powerful company, no matter how brilliant.""The Google Books plan is a perfect example of public failure." If they are allowed to continue, Google will...
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