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020			_z9781787432963
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050		4	_aT58.5-58.64
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100	1		_aMosco, Vincent.
245	1	0	_aBecoming Digital : _bToward a Post-Internet Society.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBingley : _bEmerald Publishing Limited, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2018.
300			_a1 online resource (246 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSocietyNow Series
505	0		_aFront 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.
520			_aThis 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aInternet--Social aspects.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMosco, Vincent _tBecoming Digital _dBingley : Emerald Publishing Limited,c2017 _z9781787432963
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aSocietyNow Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4941311 _zClick to View
999			_c128799 _d128799