The Last Good Day on the Internet
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Do you remember when the internet felt like a shared playground? When strangers around the world connected over the colour of a dress? ‘The Last Good Day on the Internet’ sees former foreign correspondent and tech entrepreneur Mark Little take us back to a time when the web was a place of community, curiosity and potential – until it wasn’t. Having spent nearly two decades at the heart of the digital revolution – leaving RTÉ to found two successful start-ups, Storyful and Kinzen, and working for Twitter and Spotify – Little is one of the few who has witnessed the internet’s transformation from the inside. Here, he offers an unflinching insider account of the web’s rise, charting its most powerful innovations and its most damaging failures.
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'A masterclass in how the internet actually works, written by someone who built it up, watched it break, and refuses to give up on it. Essential reading for anyone who lives online. Which is to say, everyone.' Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Senior Correspondent
Do you remember when the internet felt like a shared playground? When strangers around the world connected over something as simple as the colour of a dress?
In The Last Good Day on the Internet, journalist, entrepreneur and digital pioneer Mark Little takes us back to a web built on curiosity, community and possibility.
And shows us what happened next.
Drawing on his unique experience as the founder of two internet start-ups, Storyful and Kinzen, and working with Twitter and Spotify, Little charts the rise of the attention economy and the relentless pursuit of scale that fuelled the toxic algorithms, hate, misinformation and division of today's online world.
As AI reshapes our future, Little then asks the question that matters most: What if we could take the internet back?
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| Weight | 427 g |
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| Dimensions | 23.2 × 15.2 × 2.8 cm |
| Book_author | Little, Mark |
| Publisher | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Imprint | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 320 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |
| Dewey | 303.4833 (edition:23) |
| Readership | College – higher education / Code: F |