Jonathan Taplin
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy, are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect of a second American civil war, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme--the metaverse, cryptocurrency, space travel, and transhumanism--is an existential threat in moral, political, and economic terms. In The End of Reality,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Taplin tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms -- Facebook, Amazon and Google -- that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and news industries. Taplin offers a history of how online life began to be shaped around the values of the men who founded these companies,...
3) Mean streets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Charlie, a 27-year-old, tries to work his way up the bottom rungs of organized crime's ladder. Amy Robinson is Teresa, the girlfriend Charlie's family declares "unsuitable" because she has epilepsy.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Camp nowhere: A group of kids create their own camp with the help of an out-of-work drama teacher.
Baby secret of the lost legend: While on an expedition to Africa, a scientist and her husband discover a newborn brontosaurus. Soon they find themselves under attack by an evil paleozoologist who will stop at nothing to capture and exploit the prehistoric beast.