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Move Fast and Break Things
How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What It Means For All Of Us
2017
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A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year'LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDGoogle. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising. Those that create the content – the artists, writers and musicians – are finding the...
The End of Reality
How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
2023
EN
An instant bestseller! A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century—the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism—being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk), leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society.At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy are compounding to create epic wealth dispa...
Move Fast and Break Things
How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
2017
EN
A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms—Facebook, Amazon, and G...
The Magic Years
Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life
2021
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Jonathan Taplin’s extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century: he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band in the 60s, producer of major films in the 70s, an executive at Merrill Lynch in the 80s, creator of the Internet’s first Video-on-Demand service in the 90s, and a cultural critic and author writing about technology in the new millennium. His is a lifetime marked not only by good timing but by impeccable instincts—from the fo...
The End of Reality
How four billionaires are selling out our future
2023
EN
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**'A wake-up call ... fascinating' Scott Galloway, author of The Four'Please read this' Jaron Lanier, author of Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media**From the author of Move Fast and Break Things comes a withering takedown of four billionaires (from Andreessen to Zuckerberg) who are selling us fantasies while the world burns.At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic inequality, four billionaires...
Move Fast and Break Things
How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
- Narrated by
- Jonathan Taplin
Unabridged
8 hours 23 min
2017
EN
A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms—Facebook, Amazon, and G...
The End of Reality
How four billionaires are selling out our future
- Narrated by
- Jason Culp
Unabridged
10 hours 57 min
2023
EN
**Brought to you by Penguin.A withering takedown of four billionaires (from Andreessen to Zuckerberg) who are selling us fantasies while the world burns.**At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic inequality, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme - from the metaverse to cryptocurrency, space travel and transhumanism - is an existential threat in moral, political, an...
The End of Reality
How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
- Narrated by
- Jason Culp
Unabridged
10 hours 59 min
2023
EN
A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century—the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism—being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk), leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society.At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect o...
Move Fast and Break Things
How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What It Means For All Of Us
- Narrated by
- Jonathan Taplin
Unabridged
8 hours 21 min
2017
EN
A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year' 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDGoogle. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising. Those that create the content – the artists, writers and musicians – are findin...
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