Becoming Digital : Toward a Post-Internet Society.

Front Cover -- Becoming Digital -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- About the Author -- Preface -- 1 The Next Internet -- Happy Birthday Internet -- The Web: Deep and Dark -- Grand Convergences -- A Web of Problems -- The Road Ahead -- 2 Converging Technologies -- Technology and Society -- To the Cloud -- The Numbers Will Speak for Themselves -- Bringing Things to Life -- The Power and Peril of Convergence -- Nowhere and Everywhere -- 3 Power, Politics and Political Economy -- Technology and Power -- From Research to Commerce -- Big Tech -- Challengers to the Big Five -- Government Embraces the Next Internet -- The Challenge from China -- 4 The Body and Culture -- Skin in the Game -- Getting Chipped -- Count and Commodify -- The Worker Commodity -- Child's Play -- Metaphorically Speaking -- Myth-ing Links -- The Singularity Is Near -- Come Alive! -- 5 Problems -- Commercialism and Concentration -- Heavy Bugsplat and Cyber Warfare -- Environmental Impact -- Privacy, Surveillance and the Internet of Hackable Things -- Automation and Jobs -- 6 Citizenship in a Post-Internet World -- Despair and Disruption -- Revenge of Analog? -- The Value of Impossible Dreams -- Historical Imagination -- Occupy the Internet? -- Break up the Big Five -- Regulate Commercialism -- Resist Militarism -- Control E-Pollution -- Restore Privacy -- Basic Income Is a Human Right -- Conclusion: Towards a Public Utility in Communication -- Endnotes -- Epigraph References -- Further Reading -- Index.

This book examines the convergence of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the Internet of Things to forge the Next Internet. Ubiquitous computing enables universal communication, concentration of power, privacy erosion, environmental degradation, and massive automation and this title explores solving these issues to create a democratic digital world.

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