Laws of Disruption Harnessing the New Forces That Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age

Name: Laws of Disruption Harnessing the New Forces That Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age
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ISBN: 9780465018642

ISBN-10: 0465018645

ISBN-13: 9780465018642

Edition: 2009

Authors: Larry Downes

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Digital technology has become ubiquitous. We click through licensing agreements without reading them, post digital music files, and add phone applications. Are these uses legal? Moral? Most people aren't sure. This is because social, political, and economic systemslike the lawchange slowly, but technology changes in the blink of an eye. Users are left in the gap between the speed of innovation and the sluggishness of social change.InThe Laws of Disruption, Larry Downes, bestselling business author, consultant, and strategist, jumps into that gap, revealing the business and social implications of the laws of disruption as they relate to the problems of oversight, strategy, and the Internet.…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 10/13/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.968



Introduction


Digital Life


Digital Life-Understanding Second-Order Effects


The Weird Economics of Information-Non-rivalrous Goods and the Problem-of Transaction Costs


Private Life



Convergence-When Worlds Collide



Personal Information-From Privacy to Propriety



Human Rights-Social Contracts in Digital Life


Public Life



Infrastructure-Rules of the Road on the Information Highway



Business-All Regulation Is Local



Crime-Public Wrongs, Private Remedies


Information Life



Copyright-Reset the Balance



Patent-Virtual Machines Need Virtual Lubricants



Software-Open Always Wins Eventually


Conclusion-Lessons Learned


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index