Comments on: Book review – The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy/2019/06/19/book-review-the-internet-trap-how-the-digital-economy-builds-monopolies-and-undermines-democracy/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Tue, 05 Dec 2023 10:41:23 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/06/19/book-review-the-internet-trap-how-the-digital-economy-builds-monopolies-and-undermines-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-49422Sat, 18 Jun 2022 09:09:47 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3599#comment-49422[…] point out the price of constant connection: how it is addictive, erodes deep thought, undermines business and politics, turns us into bigots, and has made a business model out of mining the natural resource that is […]

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]]>By: Book review – Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/06/19/book-review-the-internet-trap-how-the-digital-economy-builds-monopolies-and-undermines-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-13846Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:34:30 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3599#comment-13846[…] irrationality then and now, and truly makes our age different. It has failed spectacularly at being the great leveller that people envisioned it would be. Smith singles out the rise of social media giants in particular. It should come as no surprise […]

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]]>By: Book review – Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/06/19/book-review-the-internet-trap-how-the-digital-economy-builds-monopolies-and-undermines-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-7481Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:51:44 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3599#comment-7481[…] I have written on this blog before that the Internet is not everything it is cracked up to be. Here I will add another string to that bow: crime. Spam, scams, malware, keyloggers, viruses, hacking, identity theft, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, stolen credit card details… the list goes on. Just as its offline counterpart, cybercrime encompasses a diverse array of misdeeds. But where its victims, both personal and corporate, regularly make headlines, the perpetrators remain a mysterious bunch. Based on a huge number of interviews, sociologist Jonathan Lusthaus here provides a peek behind that veil of anonymity. Next to showing that cybercrime has become an industry like any other, he also explores the paradox at its heart: how did this growth happen in an environment of mistrust and anonymity? […]

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