Are We Puppets in a Wired World? New York Review of Books

NYRB - Sue Halpern discusses the history of the Internet and the issues presented in the following:


To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov
PublicAffairs, 413 pp., $28.99

Hacking the Future: Privacy, Identity and Anonymity on the Web
by Cole Stryker
Overlook, 255 pp., $25.95

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet
by John Naughton
London: Quercus, 373 pp., £10.99 (paper)

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
by Eric Siegel
Wiley, 302 pp., $28.00

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier
Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 242 pp., $27.00

Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age
by Alice E. Marwick
Yale University Press, 368 pp., $27.50

Privacy and Big Data: The Players, Regulators and Stakeholders
by Terence Craig and Mary E. Ludloff
O’Reilly Media, 108 pp., $19.99 (paper)