Fake news. Digital monopolies. Stealth Marketing. This is the story of how the internet, which began as a dream, has become a nightmare.
Jonathan Taplin is Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab and a former tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, as well as a film producer for Martin Scorsese. An expert in digital media entertainment, Taplin is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the California Broadband Taskforce and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's Council on Technology and Innovation.
Taplin wields his axe mercilessly...by the end of this book you
will agree with Taplin that the tech firms are abusing their
monopoly power to rip us off and debase our culture - breaking the
world as he sees it...It is time for consumers to break back. This
manifesto is a punchy start. * The Sunday Times *
A bracing, unromantic account of how the internet was
captured...Move Fast and Break Things is a timely and useful
book * The Observer *
Taplin is angry as hell about the immense size and power of the
tech giants, and has a compelling pitch for why we should all be
worried too * The Evening Standard *
Comprehensive...Where Taplin excels is by putting all this into the
context of the changing global economy * The Times *
A new analysis of the dark side of the digital revolution...Taplin
goes beyond familiar critiques * Financial Times *
Taplin's sense of outrage is palpable and his case is often
compelling * The Guardian *
A radical remedy * The Economist *
A nuanced look at the downside of what is glibly tossed around as
"disruption" by various cyber-messianic blowhards. Taplin is
hunting big game; it is his contention that the giants of the
cyberworld-from Google to Amazon-are threats to the fundamental
foundations of democracy and that they also cement inequality into
our systems in new and dangerous ways * Esquire *
Jonathan Taplin's Move Fast and Break Things argues that the
radical libertarian ideology and monopolistic greed of many Silicon
Valley entrepreneurs helped to decimate the livelihoods of
musicians and is now undermining the communal idealism of the early
internet * Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review *
Mr Taplin brings an informed perspective to his task * Wall Street
Journal *
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 goes on my bookshelf beside a few
other indispensable signposts in the maze of life in the 21st
Century--The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul, The
Image by Daniel Boorstin, The Work of Art in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin, The Medium is
the Message by Marshall McLuhan, The Media Monopoly by
Ben Bagdikian, Christ and the Media by Malcolm Muggeridge,
and Future Shock by Alvin Toffler. 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,
Oscar-Winning Songwriter, soundtrack and record producer *
Jonathan Taplin's Move Fast and Break Things, a rock and
roll memoir cum internet history cum artists'
manifesto, provides a bracing antidote to corporate triumphalism -
and a reminder that musicians and writers 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 *
A powerful argument for reducing inequality and revolutionizing how
we use the Web for the benefit of the many rather than the few *
Kirkus Review *
Jonathan Taplin, more than anyone I know, can articulate the
paralyzing complexities that have arisen from the intertwining of
the tech and music industries. He counters the catastrophic
implications for musicians with solutions and inspiration for a
renaissance. He shows the way for artists to reclaim and reinvent
subversion, rather than be in servitude to Big Tech. Every musician
and every creator should read this book. * Rosanne Cash,
Grammy-winning Singer and Songwriter *
An absolute must-read for anyone who wants to gain a little savvy
in the internet era * Newsweek *
Insightful.... Taplin provides a keen, thorough look at the present
and future of Americans' lives as influenced and manipulated by the
technological behemoths on which they've come to depend. His work
is certainly food for thought * Publishers Weekly *
A breakthrough, must-read book... a tour de force-a compelling,
story-driven work focusing on the handful of men who have shaped
and essentially taken over the massive tech industry. Along the
way, Taplin tells his own personal story with charm and insight. If
you want to understand what has happened to our country and where
tech will take us in the era of Trump, put aside some time to read
this book. It will take your breath away * Alternet *
Jonathan Taplin's excellent new book explains exactly how Google,
Facebook and Amazon are undermining democratic institutions,
accelerating the rise of oligarchy...and destroying both cultural
and economic opportunities for millions of people. * The Chicago
Tribune *
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