The anarchist in the library: how the clash between freedom and control is hacking the real world and crashing the system
Essais et documents généraux, Sciences et technologies, Informatique et Internet
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
More and more of our social, political and religious activities are modelling themselves after the World Wide Web. A committed anarchist, Vaidhyanathan shows how the key information structure of our time is the 'peer-to-peer network'. These networks have always existed… - gossip is one example, as is word-of-mouth advertising - but with the rise of electronic communication, they are suddenly coming into their own. And they are drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century. Everything from culture to terrorism and extremist politics to religion will be affected. 2005.