- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Viking; Stated First Edition edition (17 Nov 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670876003
- ISBN-13: 978-0670876006
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 3.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,198,429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Release 2.0 launched a worldwide discussion about the impact of the Internet on our lives. Now, in the "upgraded", paperback edition, high-tech industry leader Esther Dyson expands on her remarkable exploration of our digital society, integrating commentary generated by the hardback's publication and discussions on the Release 2.0 Web site.
A Baedeker for navigating--and influencing--the social, political, ethical and business implications of the Internet, Release 2.1 outlines the choices and conflicts we face: our desire for privacy vs society's interest in openness; flourishing creativity vs the protection of intellectual property; government oversight vs personal autonomy. Dyson deftly negotiates the schism between security and freedom and propels us to consider and help shape the world in which we want to live. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Esther Dyson explores the impact and implications of cyberspace on our daily lives and the global issues the Internet creates.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
We either know this or we still don't
11 May 2000
Format:Hardcover
I tried hard to appreciate Esther Dyson's book Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age, but failed. Briefly stated, the problem for me is that the topics she deals with, while important, are presented in a rather bloodless, chatty techno-speak, that either states the obvious or leaves the reader wondering what she is talking about. I kept going, hoping to discover what the buzz was about this book but only succeeded in achieving that brain dead state one can reach after hours of reading business memos and reports. I didn't find it informative, provocative, helpful, or clear. Certainly not fun. There are better, less self-centered, books about the implications of living in a digital age. Dysons 'Design' reads like it was formulated by committee. I wouldn't want to base my life on it.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
You'll pay to hear what you already know!
13 May 1999
Format:Hardcover
An old Subgenius adage goes "You'll pay to hear what you already know!" So Dyson apparently decided she could write the /best/ book ever by writing things /everyone/ knows. "Email will change business communication'? Oh my God, Esther, thanks for the news flash! What's next for Release 4.0? A timely pensée on how one day we will all own VCRs (that stands for "video-cassette recorder"!), and how this will change everything, /everything/?
How about this wild futuristic scenario: in the future, you (YOU!) will be able to make a book by just buying a microcassette recorder and some blank tape, taking it home and taping your unorganized frappucino-addled ramblings. You'll mail the tapes to a typing service, and have them send the MSWord documents /right/ to the printers. What about editors? In the future, everything is fast, no time for editing! Have the publisher bankroll the printing of a few hundred thousand, and wham! "Just-in-time" publishing! The question is, just in time for what?
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
how can something so exciting be presented so boringly?
22 Jun 2000
Format:Hardcover
I haven't finished this book and perhaps will not. Early chapters provide information about the events and personalities that led to the popularization of the internet. The basis for Al Gore's claim to have 'invented' the Web is explained. But by and large Ms. Dyson has an uncanny flair for whinging on and on about the obvious in a distinctly unpoetic and uninteresting way. The book is so obviously narrated into a hand-held recorder, and then transcribed and cleaned up by a third party that I found myself wishing I could read the original transcripts, if only for laughs. If you are a reader who knows absolutely nothing about the World Wide Web and have never even sat down with a browser and surfed, then this book may be of some interest to you. Otherwise you will sitting there being told (rather breathlessly) the equivalent of "Fire engines are red and have loud sirens" and "Oranges are grown in Florida and California and they do not like frost".
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