[colug-432] Good book

[Thomas Cranston]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Tom Hanlon <tom at functionalmedia.com> wrote:

> Dear Colug,
>
> I am reading a book that I find interesting and good. About the WWW and
> how it has changed, and the effect it has had on many things.
>
> You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (Vintage) by Jaron Lanier (Feb 8, 2011)
>
> If this thread becomes a heated politcal discussion then we should move it
> to politics thread, but just thought I would share, and interesting book
> for those of us that watched the WWW move from 1996 to 2001 to 2008 and now
> 2012, from the small group of usenetters to the current ad-driven social
> network mush.
>
> Check it out..
>
> Happy Holidays COLUG...
>
>
> --
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Hanlon
> tom at functionalmedia.com
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Kind of in the same vein, check out "The Triumph of the Nerds"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFL9IyJ_qHk

Part 1

Tom

50 minutes. Watched it on PBS years ago. Still have it on VCR tapes
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