MURDOCH’S PIRATES by Neil Chenoweth Allen & Unwin, 402pp. This book reads like a spy novel, but the combatants work for private corporations, not states. There are no innocent parties, only winners and losers, in a world where law is…
MURDOCH’S PIRATES by Neil Chenoweth Allen & Unwin, 402pp. This book reads like a spy novel, but the combatants work for private corporations, not states. There are no innocent parties, only winners and losers, in a world where law is…
64 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW FOR THEN How to Face the Digital Future Without Fear by Ben Hammersley Hodder & Stoughton,434pp. Reviewed: 4 August 2012 I suppose the future has always been alarming for those who thought much…
HAMLET’s BLACKBERRY A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers Scribe, 267pp. Reviewed: 9 October, 2010 Australia’s minority Federal Government owes the support of key independents due to its commitment to roll out…
YOU ARE NOT A GADGET A Manifesto By Jaron Lanier, Allen Lane, 210pp. Reviewed: 20 March, 2010 This is the best book I have read on the challenges posed by the growth of digital online culture, and one of the…
PIRACY The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates By Adrian Johns, University of Chicago Press, 591pp. Reviewed – Canberra Times’ Public Service Informant 6 March 2010 Three recent Federal Court cases have highlighted the determination of intellectual property-based businesses…
DELETE The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age By Victor Mayer-Schönberger, Princeton University Press, 237pp. FUTURE FILES A History of the Next 50 Years By Richard Watson, Scribe Publications, 302pp Reviewed: 21 November 2009 I’d venture that most readers…