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A review by vimes_48
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
The System is a superb non-technical overview of the evolution of the internet, starting with a group of idealistic post-grads making two computers talk in their university labs to the modern day surveillance economy.
The book is wonderfully accessible, featuring interviews with keynote individuals from Jimmy Wales to the inventor of Real Time Bidding for online ads (it’s all his fault!). Carefully structured it effectively leads the reader through the mechanics, finances and the movers and policymakers of the internet as we know it today.
The book is wonderfully accessible, featuring interviews with keynote individuals from Jimmy Wales to the inventor of Real Time Bidding for online ads (it’s all his fault!). Carefully structured it effectively leads the reader through the mechanics, finances and the movers and policymakers of the internet as we know it today.