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Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
Jack Goldsmith
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Description for Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
Paperback. A critical look at the history and future of the Internet. Num Pages: 240 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; LBDT; LNCB2; UBJ; UDB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea-that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French ... Read more
Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea-that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
358g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195340648
SKU
V9780195340648
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99-38
About Jack Goldsmith
Jack Goldsmith is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and author most recently of The Limits of International Law. He was formerly Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice, and special counsel to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense. Tim Wu is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and ... Read more
Reviews for Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
In the 1990s the Internet was greeted as the New New Thing: It would erase national borders, give rise to communal societies that invented their own rules, undermine the power of governments. In this splendidly argued book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu explain why these early assumptions were mostly wrong: The Internet turns out to illustrate the enduring importance of ... Read more