John Naughton is Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is also the Observer's 'Networker' columnist and a prominent blogger at memex.naughtons.org. His last book was A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet.

• Prologue: Why this book? Take the long view. The web is not the Net. For the Net, disruption is a feature, not a bug. Think ecology, not just economics. Complexity is the new reality. The network is now the computer. The Web is evolving. Copyrights and 'copywrongs': or why our Intellectual Property regime no longer makes sense. Orwell vs Huxley: the bookends of our networked future? Epilogue. Appendix. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Notes. Index.

'A fantastic read and a marvel of economy ... This is the kind of primer you want to slide under your boss's door' Cory Doctorow, Observer.

John Naughton is Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is also the Observer's 'Networker' columnist and a prominent blogger at memex.naughtons.org. His last book was A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet.

• Prologue: Why this book? Take the long view. The web is not the Net. For the Net, disruption is a feature, not a bug. Think ecology, not just economics. Complexity is the new reality. The network is now the computer. The Web is evolving. Copyrights and 'copywrongs': or why our Intellectual Property regime no longer makes sense. Orwell vs Huxley: the bookends of our networked future? Epilogue. Appendix. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Notes. Index.

'A fantastic read and a marvel of economy ... This is the kind of primer you want to slide under your boss's door' Cory Doctorow, Observer.

John Naughton is Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is also the Observer's 'Networker' columnist and a prominent blogger at memex.naughtons.org. His last book was A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet.

• Prologue: Why this book? Take the long view. The web is not the Net. For the Net, disruption is a feature, not a bug. Think ecology, not just economics. Complexity is the new reality. The network is now the computer. The Web is evolving. Copyrights and 'copywrongs': or why our Intellectual Property regime no longer makes sense. Orwell vs Huxley: the bookends of our networked future? Epilogue. Appendix. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Notes. Index.

'A fantastic read and a marvel of economy ... This is the kind of primer you want to slide under your boss's door' Cory Doctorow, Observer.