This four-chapter book describes some of the implications of the rapidly developing Internet culture. It is a collection of true Internet-inspired stories illustrating how the Internet and information technologies are changing our lives, restructuring our societies, families, and financial establishments and shaking up some long-held convictions regarding the roles that people should or should not undertake. The writer's main argument is that the Internet will significantly alter existing assumptions about hierarchies of expertise and even …
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…step forward. The founder had realized that technological progress was moving much too fast, at a rate that makes it impossible to plan ahead of time, with the technology at hand. Although the writer rushes through the philosophical part, towards the end, deviating from the in-depth detail of the observed stories, my overall evaluation of this book is that it is both amusing and informative, and was definitely worth my while. It has my recommendation.