Move Fast and Break Things - BistroBookers Book Talk

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, by Jonathan Taplin

A riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms--Facebook, Amazon, and Google--that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and news industries.

Reviewed by Ted Schmidt, Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Finance,  Buffalo State College

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6:15 Welcome

6:30 Reviewers presentation