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From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet

Interesting, I especially liked the conception of communication media through the framework of ecology rather than economics and a few other points. I disagreed with some of the authors he quotes on authorship pre-Gutenberg and a few other absolutist sounding statements that he quotes. I loved the history of the internet bits best. He doesn't, in the end, offer a future-telling of the impact of the internet but rather shows how the infrastructure effects our interactions with it, the fears of utopia/dystopia, and the potential lifecycle that will impact the internet's future use through mobile + the large companies which mediate our experiences online. Very thinky, some argueing, would recommend.

August 2, 2015Report this review