Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Book review: Release 2.0 by Esther Dyson

“A design for living in the digital age”

This is now quite an old book – a lot of it is still pertinant but I wish I’d read it ten years ago. Dyson is clearly someone who gets it, she understood a lot of the potential of the internet way before most people out there.

She takes a tour of the important issues of life on the net, without anchoring them too much to a specific time or place covering anonimity, privacy, intellectual property and governance.

This book now, though, is mostly of historical interest, there are better, more recent books covering similar issues, for all her vision the world is a very different place ten years on.


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