Release 2.0 : A Design for Living in the Digital Age (Cassette/Abridged)
by Esther Dyson
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Author: Esther DysonReader: Candice Agree
Edition: Audio Cassette
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 1997-10-13
ISBN: 0553478710
Publisher: Random House Audio
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Book Review: how can something so exciting be presented so boringly?
Summary: 2 Stars
I haven't finished this book and perhaps will not. Early chapters provide information about the events and personalities that led to the popularization of the internet. The basis for Al Gore's claim to have 'invented' the Web is explained. But by and large Ms. Dyson has an uncanny flair for whinging on and on about the obvious in a distinctly unpoetic and uninteresting way. The book is so obviously narrated into a hand-held recorder, and then transcribed and cleaned up by a third party that I found myself wishing I could read the original transcripts, if only for laughs. If you are a reader who knows absolutely nothing about the World Wide Web and have never even sat down with a browser and surfed, then this book may be of some interest to you. Otherwise you will sitting there being told (rather breathlessly) the equivalent of "Fire engines are red and have loud sirens" and "Oranges are grown in Florida and California and they do not like frost".
Summary of Release 2.0 : A Design for Living in the Digital Age (Cassette/Abridged)
In 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.Dyson 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.
People all over the world, and the U.S. in particular, are struggling with the enormous business, social, and political implications of the digital age. Those in the technology vanguard want to retain the purity and frontier spirit of cyberspace, while business leaders and entrepreneurs are trying to harness its economic power. Many of us think of the internet as simply a tool for electronic mail, while others see it as a new medium that primarily affects their children. Some worry about threats to their own privacy; others are concerned that criminals may use the new technology to outwit law enforcement. And yet others wonder how requirements for electronic literacy and access to information may affect the gap between haves and have-nots. Many people have discussed the future of the digital age at great length, but, until now, no one has explored the opportunities and trade-offs individuals and governments will face as society moves more fully into the information age. In Release 2.0, Esther Dyson draws on her years of experience analyzing and shaping the computer world as we know it--both in the U.S. and in Eastern and Western Europe--and her close-up knowledge of industry pioneers, business leaders, national policy makers, and local; innovators and activists to explain how this new world works and lay out the possibilities for the future that depend on the choices we make. These choices include privacy, openness, trust, accountability, ownership of ideas and content, access to opportunity, and education. Filled with examples, stories, and Dyson's trademark wit, this will be on of the most talked about audiobooks of 1997.
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