An intensely practical, level-headed, impassioned and highly informative investigation of what will be the dominant cultural force for the foreseeable future. This book is important not only for looking backwards, but also for understanding what we must do to keep the Net as it is' Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School 'A fascinating aspect of John Naugh ton's book is the research he has done on the deep roots of familiar Net concepts. More than others, it places the events in a context that helps one understand why innovation happened. 'This is the best history of the Net that I have seen. John Naughton 'Naughton's book explains more clearly than anything I have read how the technology turned to magic' Independent a fascinating and highly accessible history of the Internet packed with intriguing anecdotes and stimulating insights." -David Puttnam"At last the Internet gets the history book it deserves." -The BooksellerĪ Brief History of the Future T H E ORIGINS OF T H E INTERNET A Brief History of the Future is an intimate celebration of vision and altruism, ingenuity and determination, and above all the power of ideas to change the world.".
John Naughton writes about the Net like Nick Hornby writes about soccer. Although its subject seems technical, the book in fact is personal.
And even fewer have any idea of what it means for society and the future.John Naughton has written a warm and passionate book that seeks to rescue the Internet from the condescension of posterity, to celebrate the engineers and scientists who implemented their dreams in hardware and software, and to explain the values and ideas that drove them. Most of us have no idea where the Internet came from, how it works, or who created it and why. A millennium from now, historians will look back at it and marvel that a people equipped with such clumsy tools succeeded in creating such a leviathan.Yet even as the Net pervades our lives, we begin to take it for granted. An intimate, gloriously written look at the communications revolution and how it has opened up the world.The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the pyramids.
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