The System
Descriere
'A fascinating exposé of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important'Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women
'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a murkier world where we discover how everything online works and who benefits from it. Fascinating, engaging and important'
Observer
'Could not be more timely'
SpectatorThe internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone.We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure where the real power lies.In this powerful and necessary book, James Ball sets out on a global journey into the inner workings of the system. From the computer scientists to the cable guys, the billionaire investors to the ad men, the intelligence agencies to the regulators, these are the real-life figures powering the internet and pulling the strings of our society.Ball brilliantly shows how an invention once hailed as a democratising force has concentrated power in places it already existed – that the system, in other words, remains the same as it did before.
Despre autor
James Ball este un jurnalist și autor britanic. A lucrat pentru publicațiile The Grocer, The Guardian, WikiLeaks, BuzzFeed, The New European și The Washington Post, fiind autorul mai multor cărți. A primit numeroase premii pentru jurnalistica sa și a făcut parte din echipa The Guardian care a câștigat Premiul Pulitzer pentru jurnalism de investigație.
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