When the tech platforms promised a future of connection they were lying They said their walled gardens would keep us safe but those were prison walls The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings ripe for extraction Twitter Facebook and other Big Tech platforms are hard to leave by design They hold hostage the people we love the communities that matter to us the audiences and customers we rely on The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations it s a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships We can we must dismantle the tech platforms In The Internet Con Cory Doctorow explains how to seize the means of computation by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most interoperate Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies allowing users to leave platforms remix their media and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Verso
ISBN: 9781804292143
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 192
Tiempo de lectura:
3h 54m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 17/09/2024
Año de edición: 2024
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Cory Doctorow
Novelista canadiense de ciencia ficción, periodista y activista tecnológico. Colabora con numerosas revistas, sitios web y periódicos. Es asesor especial de la Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), un grupo de libertades civiles sin ánimo de lucro que defiende la libertad en la legislación, la política, las normas y los tratados sobre tecnología. Sus novelas han sido traducidas a decenas de idiomas. Es doctor honoris causa en informática por la Open University (Reino Unido). En 2020 ingresó en el Salón de la Fama de la Ciencia Ficción y la Fantasía de Canadá. Ha ganado los premios Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine y Sunburst, y ha sido nominado a los premios Hugo,