February 2017
Beginner
352 pages
8h 28m
English
Now over fifteen years after its original publication, The Social Life of Information holds up far better than most books about technology not simply because it was prescient, which it was, and not simply because it was right, which it was. It has held up so well because it’s right about issues even larger than its ostensible topic: the limits of information technology.
The authors were brave to write this book, for it was published at the height of Internet mania, just before the investors’ bubble had burst and while the media were clamoring for, and promulgating, stories about how the Internet would change everything. (I wrote more than my share of them. I’m not yet convinced I was entirely ...