Overconnected : the promise and threat of the internet /
By: Davidow, William H
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Headline Business Plus, c2011.Description: xi, 240 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780755362288Subject(s): Information technology -- Social aspects | Internet -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 303.48 DA OV Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 303.48 DA OV (Browse shelf) | Available | T0043306 |
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303.44 WE SC Scale : | 303.4409174927 EM CU Current transformations and their potential role in realizing change in the Arab world. | 303.48 CY BE Cybernetics : | 303.48 DA OV Overconnected : | 303.48 KH EL E-learning techniques in IT programs : | 303.48 KH EL E-learning and e-cheating : | 303.48 RO SO The social impact of computers / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In OVERCONNECTED, Bill Davidow explains how the almost miraculous success of the Internet in connecting the world through the Worldwide Web has also created a unique set of hazards, in effect overconnecting us, with the direst of consequences. The benefits of our recently arrived-at state of connectivity have been myriad from the ease with which it has been possible to buy a new house to the convenience of borrowing and investing money profitably. But the luxuries of the connected age have taken on a momentum all of their own. By counter-intuitively anatomizing how being overconnected tends to create systems of positive feedback that have largely negative consequences, Davidow explains everything from the recent Subprime mortgage crisis to the meltdown of Iceland, from the loss of people's privacy to the spectacular fall of the stock market. All because we were so miraculously wired together.