Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06ZXT59HC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Revenues at Google in this same period grew from $400 million to $74.5 billion. Move Fast and Break Things tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms - Facebook, , and Google - that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing, and news industries. The stakes in this story go far beyond the livelihood of any one musician or journalist. Taplin offers a succinct and powerful history of how online life began to be shaped around the values of the men who founded these companies, including Peter Thiel and Larry Page: tolerating piracy of books, music and film while at the same time promoting opaque business practices and subordinating privacy of individual users to create the surveillance marketing monoculture in which we now live. With the reallocation of money to monopoly platforms comes a shift in power. Move Fast and Break Things offers a vital, forward-thinking prescription for how artists can reclaim their audiences using knowledge of the past and a determination to work together. The enormous profits that have come with this concentration of power tell their own story. Google's YouTube today controls 60 percent of the streaming audio business and pays only 11 percent of the stre
C.A.K. said Smart and fun to read. This is a must read for artists and creators. It's an exhaustive, well-researched look at the ways in which internet companies, which are now media behemoths, have manipulated the game to their benefit and our economic disadvantage. Taplin turns his years of experience and his keen insight into identifying how we've ended up in an untenable situation for artists and what must happen . Most important book yet about technology and politics today "Move Fast and Break Things" is the most important book yet about the tragic consequences of monopoly power in the internet. Google, Facebook and Amazon have done wonderful things, but by a combination of design and unintended consequences, they have caused great harm to the creative arts, our culture and (in the case of Google and Facebook) our politics.I have been a professional te. Hopefully this will inspire other artists to rise up and make a stand Finally! Someone has put the facts in print and made it all easily understandable and actionable. Bravo Mr. Taplin!