Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities (Record no. 97956)

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International Standard Book Number 9781541774445
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Classification number 001.64
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Personal name Auerbach David B.
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Title Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc PublicAffairs
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2023
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York
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Summary, etc How the autonomous digital forces jolting our lives – as uncontrollable as the weather and plate tectonics – are transforming life, society, culture, and politics.<br/>David Auerbach’s exploration of the phenomenon he has identified as the meganet begins with a simple, startling There is no hand on the tiller of some of the largest global digital forces that influence our daily from corporate sites such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit to the burgeoning metaverse encompassing cryptocurrencies and online gaming to government systems such as China’s Social Credit System and India’s Aadhaar.<br/>As we increasingly integrate our society, culture and politics within a hyper-networked fabric, Auerbach explains how the interactions of billions of people with unfathomably large online networks have produced a new sort of ever-changing systems that operate beyond the control of the individuals, companies, and governments that created them.<br/>Meganets, Auerbach explains, have a life of their own, actively resisting attempts to control them as they accumulate data and produce spontaneous, unexpected social groups and uprisings that could not have even existed twenty years ago. And they constantly modify themselves in response to user behavior, resulting in collectively authored algorithms none of us intend or control. These enormous invisible organisms exerting great force on our lives are the new minds of the world, increasingly commandeering our daily lives and inner realities.<br/>Auerbach’s analysis of these gargantuan opaque digital forces yield important insights such Auerbach then comes full circle, showing that while we cannot ultimately control meganets we can tame them through the counterintuitive measures he describes in detail.<br/><br/>Source: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61399147
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Reference book Main Library Main Library Information Technology 06/07/2023 MSN Books 674.25 Foreign Book   001.64 AUE 118868 12/09/2024 22/08/2024 899.00 Book

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