Synopsis
A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year'
LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising. Those that...
Details
22 March 2018320 pages
9781509847709Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Taplin wields his axe mercilessly...by the end of this book you will agree with Taplin that the tech firms are abusing their monopoly power to rip us off and debase our culture - breaking the world as he sees it...It is time for consumers to break back. This manifesto is a punchy start.The Sunday Times
A bracing, unromantic account of how the internet was captured…Move Fast and Break Things is a timely and useful bookThe Observer
Taplin is angry as hell about the immense size and power of the tech giants, and has a compelling pitch for why we should all be worried tooThe Evening Standard
Comprehensive…Where Taplin excels is by putting all this into the context of the changing global economyThe Times
