By Siva Vaidhyanathan
"Library Journal (04/15/2011):
"Vaidhyanathan ("Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity" delivers another act from his well-worn (and effective) town crier squawk box, this time focusing on Google and its monopoly role in our lives today. While a plethora of voices—Jaron Lanier, Jonathan Zittrain, Evgeny Morozov, to name a few—are screaming to be heard about all that is wrong with our web-technology-immersed world today, Vaidhyanathan is less pessimistic about the future. He has numerous concerns: infrastructural imperialism, corporations like Google filling the voids that were once the domain of public services, soft technical regulation and censorship of the web, privacy trade-offs to enable functionality, and the compromises we knowingly and unknowingly make in using Google's search services exclusively. VERDICTThis book is in no way an attack on Google but more like a parent asking a child, "What do you want to do with your life?" then going through all the concerns one by one." (Library Journal) Check Our Catalog
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