02897cam a2200349 4500 529308776 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781622311323 1622311329 a09c0bc2-3ebb-479d-8114-60ca920298d9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1277342 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mele, Nicco. The End of Big [Libby] : How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath. HighBridge, 2013. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 247MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 247MB. Business. Sociology. Nonfiction. Radical connectivity-our ability to connect instantly, constantly, and globally-is altering the exercise of power with dramatic speed and reshaping our biggest institutions. Governments, corporations, centers of knowledge, and expertise are eroding before the power of the individual. In some cases this is a positive development, but as Mele reveals, the promise of the Internet comes with a troubling downside. He asks: How do we trust information when journalists are replaced by bloggers, phone videos, and tweets? Will the collapse of two-party government bring us qualified leaders or demagogues and special-interest-controlled politicians? When web-based micro-businesses can out-compete major corporations, who enforces basic regulations-product safety, privacy protection, fraud, and tax collection?Unless we exercise deliberate moral choice over the design and use of technologies, Mele contends, we doom ourselves to a future that tramples human values, renders social structures chaotic, and destroys rather than enhances freedom. Both hopeful and alarming, thought-provoking and passionately-argued, The End of Big is an important book about our present-and our future. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Runnette, Sean. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/1277342-TheEndOfBig.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/1277342-TheEndOfBig.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A09C0BC2-3EBB-479D-8114-60CA920298D9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/1277342-TheEndOfBig.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/1277342-TheEndOfBig.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A09C0BC2-3EBB-479D-8114-60CA920298D9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)