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Not sure I'll read this one. I just finished the intro and while I agree with some of the author's points, the overall tone is alarmist and conveys the feeling this book was published mainly as a sensationalist piece to make money.

I follow the arguments mostly, although I think their overblown, alarmist and the author has substituted vaunted vocabulary, for simple clarity. Please don't tell me he needs this miasma of verbiage to explain complicated concepts in computer philosophy. I say bull.

I think it always takes me the longest to get through the middle third of the audio books I listen to than either the first or last third.

A mistake to read four books at once?

I am really enjoying this author's takedown of people's "philosophical" pronouncements that actually reflect no critical analysis whatsoever.

The irony of tracking how far I am through this book does not escape me.

Interesting arguments obscured by turgid, waspish polemic. Pity.

So far so good

Appreciation for his argument(s) is deepening. Very interested in his idea of "internet-centrism" and his account of "the internet" as an uncritically reified ideological construct.

Morozov does not agree with many of the authors I've read (Postman, Carr) but I am enjoying the debate and dialogue it generates in my head.