Fake news. Digital monopolies. Stealth marketing. This is the story of how the internet, which began as a dream, has become a nightmare - and the organizations that have profited from it. 'Jonathan Taplin's new book could not be more timely. Twenty years after the initial euphoria of the Web, ten years after the invention of social media, it's time to stop breaking things and start thinking seriously about the new habitat we're creating. Move Fast and Break Things provides a blueprint for a future that humans can live in'
Frank Rose, author of The Art of Immersion'Move Fast and Break Things provides a bracing antidote to corporate triumphalism - and a reminder that writers and musicians need a place at the tech table and, more to the point, a way to make a decent living' Jeffrey Toobin, author of American Heiress'Move Fast and Break Things goes on my bookshelf beside a few other indispensable signposts in the maze of the twenty-first century - The Technological Society, and The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan. I pray the deepest and highest prayer I can get to that this clarion warning is heeded. The survival of our species is at stake' T Bone Burnett, Grammy Award winning producer and musician