Virtual unreality just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true?

Seife takes "us deep into the Internet information jungle and [cuts] a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is...

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Main Author: Seife, Charles (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Viking, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Catching the stupid bug
  • Appeal to authority
  • An army of one
  • Telling fake people from real
  • The loneliness of the interconnected
  • Copy, right?
  • Scarcity
  • All hat, no cattle
  • White noise and the Red Queen
  • Artificial unintelligence
  • Make money fast
  • Companies : private, public, and shady
  • This is your brain
  • Living in the raw.