Publisher Description
We are in the throes of a technological and cultural revolution, yet the rapid pace of change makes it difficult to understand what's going on. 50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know provides a clear path through the misinformation surrounding the technologies that are transforming the world. Leading technology writer Tom Chatfield provides a sure-footed guide to the seminal digital phenomena of our time--from the basic browsers that we use to surf the web, to the implications for our own privacy. From plumbing the depths of the deep web that represents well over 99 percent of the internet and remains inaccessible to most search engines, to digital distribution that threatens to sweep away entire industries, this is an indispensable road map for our journey to a digital future. (P)2011 Quercus Editions Ltd
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About Tom Chatfield
Tom Chatfield is a freelance
author, consultant, game writer, and theorist. His first book Fun, Inc. was published to worldwide
acclaim in 2010. He has done design, writing, and consultancy work for games
and media companies, including Google and Intervox. He has spoken widely on
technology, media, and gaming at forums including TED Global, the Cannes Lions
Festival, the House of Commons, RSA, ICA, and the World IT Congress. A former
senior editor at Prospect magazine, he
has a doctorate from St John’s College, Oxford, and writes widely in the UK
national press, including for the Observer,
Independent, Sunday Times, Wired, New Statesman, Evening Standard, and Times
Literary Supplement.
About Kerry Shale
Kerry Shale is a Sony Radio Academy Award winner, a narrator of dozens of audio books, and an actor in films as diverse as Yentl and Welcome to Sarajevo. He won an Audie Award for his narration of Q&A.