Lloyd Shepherd
Monitoring the Changes
The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World
By Nick Harkaway
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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