how digital forces beyond our control commander our daily lives and inner realities Auerbach, David B. creator text bibliography nyu 2023 First edition. monographic eng

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vii, 339 pages ; 25 cm "David Auerbach's exploration of the phenomenon he has identified as the meganet begins with a simple, startling revelation: There is no hand on the tiller of some of the largest global digital forces that influence our daily lives. From corporate sites such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit - to the burgeoning metaverse encompassing cryptocurrencies and online gaming - to government systems such as China's Social Credit System and India's Aadhaar. As we increasingly integrate our society, culture and politics within a hyper-networked fabric, Auerbach explains how the interactions of billions of people with unfathomably large online networks have produced a new sort of beast: ever-changing systems that operate beyond the control of the individuals, companies, and governments that created them. Meganets, Auerbach explains, have a life of their own, actively resisting attempts to control them as they accumulate data and produce spontaneous, unexpected social groups and uprisings that could not have even existed twenty years ago. They constantly modify themselves in response to user behavior, resulting in collectively authored algorithms none of us intend or control. These enormous invisible organisms exerting great force on our lives are the new minds of the world, increasingly commandeering our daily lives and inner realities"-- A world too big to know -- No center to hold -- Discovering the meganet -- The meganet as game and commerce -- Majority rules -- The limits of control -- Inside the meganet's brain -- Taming the meganet. David B. Auerbach. Includes bibliographical references and index. Metaverse Metaverso Internet governance Internet Política gubernamental Internet Social aspects Internet TK 5105.8854 A917m 2023 004.67/8 9781541774445 (hardcover) 1541774442 (hardcover) 2022029526 DLC 220722 20250226101301.0 22716690 eng