内容简介
The definitive history, packed with untold stories, of one of America’s most controversial and powerful companies: Facebook
As a college sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network.
Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from its first, modest iteration. In light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts, the handling of its users’ personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO—who has enormous power over what the world sees and says—never has a company been more central to the national conversation.
Millions of words have been written about Facebook, but no one has told the complete story, documenting its ascendancy and missteps. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life, or the imperative of this book to document the unchecked power and shocking techniques of the company, from growing at all costs to outmaneuvering its biggest rivals to acquire WhatsApp and Instagram, to developing a platform so addictive even some of its own are now beginning to realize its dangers.
Based on hundreds of interviews from inside and outside Facebook, Levy’s sweeping narrative of incredible entrepreneurial success and failure digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.
作者简介
Steven Levy这部经典力作的25周年版从20世纪50年代早期跨越到80年代后期，追述了计算机革命中初期黑客的丰功伟绩，他们都是最聪明和最富有个性的精英。他们勇于承担风险，勇于挑战规则，并把世界推向了一个全新的发展方向。本书更新了一些著名黑客的最新资料，包括比尔·盖茨、马克·扎克伯格、理查德·斯托曼和史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克，并讲述了从早期计算机研究实验室到最初的家用计算机期间一些妙趣横生的故事。
在Levy的笔下，他们都是聪明而勤奋的人，他们极富想象力，他们另辟蹊径，发现了计算机工程问题的巧妙解决方案。他们都有一个共同的价值观，那就是至今仍然长盛不衰的“黑客道德”。本书描述了近代历史上的一个萌芽时期，描述了黑客用默默无闻的行动为当今的数字世界照亮了一条道路，描述了那些打破陈规“非法”访问穿孔卡片计算机的MIT的学生，也描述了缔造出Altair和Apple II电脑这些伟大产品的DIY文化。
Facebook: The Inside Story是2020年由BlueRiderPress出版,作者StevenLevy。
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