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Esther Dyson Release 2.0
Broadway 0767900111 / 9780767900119 Hardcover Fine
0767900111 Editorial Reviews n nAmazon.com Review nIn her first book, respected digerati opinion-maker Esther Dyson looks at computing and the Internet and how they will profoundly change our business and social lives in a fully wired world. The wisdom of Dyson's view is that, while the digital age will be vastly different from the one we know, it will be governed by the same forces that have always shaped social organizations. She has given lots of thought to how those forces will interact with specific new technologies and does a convincing job of predicting the shape of things to come in considerable detail. n nDyson is the founder of the influential PC Forum conference and her company Edventure Holdings publishes the respected Release 1.0 newsletter, from which her book adapts its title. She is also chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a lobbyist organization that seeks to present a pro-Internet voice in Washington. n nFrom Library Journal nOne of only two women included in Vanity Fair's October "new establishment" roundup of the top 50 information age leaders and best known as writer/editor of the 15-year-old computer insiders' newsletter, Release 1.0, Dyson seems well credentialed to explain the importance, current and future, of net culture to the average citizen. Indeed, she delivers a readable analysis of such issues as the impact of the net on our education system, the ups and downs of privacy in digital environments, and the best strategies for governing amorphous international communities. The problem is that, though written in an engaging style, this is a serious study of many complex issues, and Dyson doesn't always resolve them easily. (Librarians may be disappointed at the short shrift they are given in the chapters on "Intellectual Property" and "Content Control.") Netizens will be fascinated, and those of us professionally affected by the net should read this book, but it will have trouble achieving the international best seller status that some expected.?Eric Bryant, "Library Journal" nCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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