The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
Автор:Siva Vaidhyanathan Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0465089844 From Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs, the debates over who gets to control information and technology has revolved around a single question: How closely do we want the virtual world to resemble the real world? But while we weren't looking, the opposite has happened: The real world has started imitating the virtual world--in some alarming ways. More and more of our social, political, and religious activities are modeling themselves after the World Wide Web, along the lines of either anarchy or oligarchy, total freedom vs. complete control. And battle lines are being drawn. On one side, trying to maintain control of information, are corporations, judges, the military, and global institutions. On the other side, trying to liberate information, are educators, hackers, civil libertarians, artists, consumers, and political dissidents. The Anarchist in the Library , by the rising young academic star Siva Vaidhyanathan, is a radically original look at how this...
