Release 2.0
Subtitle: a design for living in the digital age
By: Esther Dyson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Computer networks -- Social aspects; Internet -- Social aspects
Description: In Release 2.0, Dyson charts the implications of the Internet for business, government, education, communities, and individuals, and illuminates the fundamental conflicts in the spread of digital communication: conflicts between personal privacy and society's interest in openness between security and freedom, between commerce and community, between government oversight and personal autonomy, between flourishing creativity and the protection of intellectual property.

As Dyson makes clear, the digital society will bring profound shifts in the balance of power between producers and consumers, governments and citizens, the mass media and their audiences. Now the challenge, and the opportunity, is for citizens to resolve these conflicts and trade-offs in their own public and private communities.
Notes: Includes index.