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hlwilkins 's review for:
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
by Jamie Bartlett
This book is nearly 10 years old and as I was reading it I kept thinking about how the internet and tech have advanced in such a short time, a lot of it I felt was out of date. Almost that there's nothing new to learn here.
The book covers Jamie's experiments on the web including trolling, extremist groups online, the start of crypto, online black markets, online child pornography, webcam porn, and online self-harm/pro-ana sites. A lot of this stuff has got more vastly out of control since he wrote about it and it's almost the norm to be reading about online crime in the media.
I'd be interested in an updated version of this book, how these things continue to proliferate, and what can be done to stop it.
The last chapter is more of a discussion on transhumanism rather than the "dark net" but raises some important topics about how the rise of technology is out of control. If the topics in this book feel out of date in just 10 years, imagine where we'll be in another 10, 20, 50 years...
The book covers Jamie's experiments on the web including trolling, extremist groups online, the start of crypto, online black markets, online child pornography, webcam porn, and online self-harm/pro-ana sites. A lot of this stuff has got more vastly out of control since he wrote about it and it's almost the norm to be reading about online crime in the media.
I'd be interested in an updated version of this book, how these things continue to proliferate, and what can be done to stop it.
The last chapter is more of a discussion on transhumanism rather than the "dark net" but raises some important topics about how the rise of technology is out of control. If the topics in this book feel out of date in just 10 years, imagine where we'll be in another 10, 20, 50 years...