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    The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a     
   Philosophy, a Warning | Hardcover   
      
   Justin E H Smith   
      
   Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press   
   Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy / Social / Computers / Internet -   
   Online Safety & Privacy   
      
   An original deep history of the internet that tells the story     
   of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it-and explains why     
   they have died today   
      
   "Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and   
   overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology.   
   But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin   
   Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from the   
   ancient to the modern world-uncovering its surprising origins   
   in nature and centuries-old dreams of radically improving human   
   life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating   
   across vast distances. Yet, despite the internet's continuing   
   potential, Smith argues, the utopian hopes behind it have   
   finally died today, killed by the harsh realities of social   
   media, the global information economy, and the attention-   
   destroying nature of networked technology.   
      
   "Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of   
   science and technology, Smith shows how the "internet" has been   
   with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating   
   connections between internet user experience, artificial   
   intelligence, the invention of the printing press,   
   communication between trees, and the origins of computing in   
   the machine-driven looms of the silk industry. At the same   
   time, he reveals how the internet's organic structure and   
   development root it in the natural world in unexpected ways   
   that challenge efforts to draw an easy line between technology   
   and nature.   
      
   Combining the sweep of intellectual history with the   
   incisiveness of philosophy, The Internet Is Not What You Think   
   It Is cuts through our daily digital lives to give a clear-   
   sighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from,   
   and where it might be taking us in the coming decades.   
      
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