Lloyd Shepherd

Monitoring the Changes

The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World

By

John Murray 280pp £13.99 order from our bookshop

Between the elections of Tony Blair and David Cameron, the world changed. Built on a set of computer network protocols, a parade of technologies and services blinked into existence that now seem essential threads in the fabric of our society: mobile data networks, Wikipedia, Twitter, Google, YouTube, blogging, Facebook, Lolcats.

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