to Nixon, but whether there will be a President at all.”8 Back then, anybody suggesting Google might be the herald of a new kind of dystopia, rather than a techno-utopia, would have been laughed out of the room. Surveillance Valley is an unprecedented journalistic achievement, revealing the untold history of the anti-democratic regime that rules our lives from behind a glossy LED screen.' Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath: Life and Loathingin Greater Israel, senioreditor of AlterNet's Grayzone Project 'An important history lesson. As Wired’s Louis Rossetto wrote in 1995, “Everything we know will be different. The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine 5.0 Hardcover 29.00 Hardcover 29.00 eBook 3.99 Audio MP3 on CD 14. Subscribe to his newsletter and podcast for his current work. He is the author of Surveillance Valley, a book about the forgotten counterinsurgency history of the Internet. Maybe this really was the beginning of a new, highly networked world order, where the old structures-militaries, corporations, governments-were helpless before the leveling power of the Internet. Books similar to Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex. Yasha Levine is a Soviet-American investigative journalist.

That’s the story you’ll find in just about every popular book on Google: a gee-whiz tale about two brilliant nerds from Stanford who turned a college project into an epoch-defining New Economy dynamo, a company that embodied every utopian promise of the networked society: empowerment, knowledge, democracy. It convinced its users that everything it did was driven by a desire to help humanity. “Even as it expanded into a transnational multi-billion-dollar corporation, Google managed to retain its geekily innocent “Don’t Be Evil” image.

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