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2017

Format:	Book
Author:	Taplin, Jonathan, 1947-
Title:	Move fast and break things : how Facebook, Google, and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy / Jonathan Taplin.
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Description:	x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:	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.
Subjects:	Internet -- Social aspects. Information society. Electronic commerce. Music and the Internet. Art and the Internet. Literature and the Internet.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and index.
Contents:	The great disruption -- Levon's story -- Tech's counterculture roots -- The libertarian counterinsurgency -- Digital destruction -- Monopoly in the digital age -- Google's regulatory capture -- The social media revolution -- Pirates of the Internet -- Libertarians and the 1 percent -- What it means to be human -- The digital renaissance.
LCCN:	2016959692
ISBN:	9780316275774 0316275778 9780316508278 0316508276 9780316275774 0316275778
Other Number:	981760522
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Control Number:	648833
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Call Number:	303.483 Taplin

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