The Heart of the Internet: An Insider's View of the Origin and Promise of the On-Line Revolution
The Heart of the Internet: An Insider's View of the Origin and Promise of the On-Line Revolution by Jacques F. Vallee
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company; First Edition edition | 2003 | ISBN: 1571743693 | 201 pages | PDF | 32,1 MB
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company; First Edition edition | 2003 | ISBN: 1571743693 | 201 pages | PDF | 32,1 MB
The Internet's original designers intended their creation to connect-not control-people. But the dotcom crash of 2001 and the dismantling of Napster signaled the end of true freedom for the Internet user. Corporate control comes in the form of data mining and selling of personal information, search engines that skew their results toward paying customers, cookies on our hard drives, and many other forms of manipulation. But all is not lost; web veteran Jacques Vallee points the way.