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The Tangled Web We Weave
James Ball
其他書名
Inside The Shadow System That Shapes the Internet
出版
Melville House
, 2020-10-06
主題
Computers / Internet / General
Political Science / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
Law / Computer & Internet
ISBN
1612198996
9781612198996
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=12OQEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
We all see what the internet
does
and increasingly don't like it, but do we know
how
and more importantly
who
makes it work that way? That's where the real power lays...
The internet was supposed to be a thing of revolutions. As that dream curdles, there is no shortage of villains to blame--from tech giants to Russian bot farms. But what if the problem is not an issue of bad actors ruining a good thing? What if the hazards of the internet are built into the system itself?
That's what journalist James Ball argues as he takes us to the root of the problem, from the very establishment of the internet's earliest protocols to the cables that wire it together. He shows us how the seemingly abstract and pervasive phenomenon is built on a very real set of materials and rules that are owned, financed, designed and regulated by very real people.
In this urgent and necessary book, Ball reveals that the internet is not a neutral force but a massive infrastructure that reflects the society that created it. And making it work for--and not against--us must be an endeavor of the people as well.