Meganets : how digital forces beyond our control are commandeering our daily lives and inner realities (Record no. 33330)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781541774445 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 004.678 |
| Item number | AUE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Auerbach, David B. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Meganets : how digital forces beyond our control are commandeering our daily lives and inner realities |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | PublicAffairs, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2023 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | vii, 339 p. ; |
| Other physical details | ill., |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 634.00 |
| Price type code | ₹ |
| Unit of pricing | 01 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | David Auerbach's exploration of the phenomenon he has identified as the meganet begins with a simple, startling revelation: There is no hand on the tiller of some of the largest global digital forces that influence our daily lives. From corporate sites such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit - to the burgeoning metaverse encompassing cryptocurrencies and online gaming - to government systems such as China's Social Credit System and India's Aadhaar. As we increasingly integrate our society, culture and politics within a hyper-networked fabric, Auerbach explains how the interactions of billions of people with unfathomably large online networks have produced a new sort of beast: ever-changing systems that operate beyond the control of the individuals, companies, and governments that created them. Meganets, Auerbach explains, have a life of their own, actively resisting attempts to control them as they accumulate data and produce spontaneous, unexpected social groups and uprisings that could not have even existed twenty years ago. They constantly modify themselves in response to user behavior, resulting in collectively authored algorithms none of us intend or control. These enormous invisible organisms exerting great force on our lives are the new minds of the world, increasingly commandeering our daily lives and inner realities |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Internet Aspect social |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Internet governance |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Business & Economics |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Information Management |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Artificial Intelligence |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Internet governance |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Metaverse |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Virtual reality |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | DAU | DAU | 05/11/2024 | Amazon | 634.00 | 004.678 AUE | 035089 | 06/11/2024 | Books |