Homewood Library Nonfiction
Move fast and break things: how Facebook, Google, and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy, by Jonathan Taplin. { 303.48 Tap }
Subjects:
- Internet. Social aspects.
- Information society.
- Electronic commerce.
- Music and the Internet.
- Art and the Internet.
- Literature and the Internet.
The book title “Move Fast and Break Things” was the motto for Facebook. Their current motto: “Move Fast with Stable Infra[structure]”.
From goodreads.com:
“A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.
Move Fast and Break Things tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s 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.
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: tolerating piracy of books, music, and film while at the same time promoting opaque business practices and subordinating privacy of individual users to create the surveillance marketing monoculture in which we now live.”
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, by Jonathan Taplin.
