Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- and Why It Matters

Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- and Why It MattersFrom the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his "drive by brilliance" and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as "one of the country's most eloquent and acid tongued critics" comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the Internet. Of course the Internet is not one thing or another; if anything, its boosters claim, the Web is everything at once. It's become

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