The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us Lefty Award Nominee (2003) For much of recorded history

For much of recorded history

The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856

the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery

To halt the inevitable

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The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us Lefty Award Nominee (2003) For much of recorded historyThe internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure where the real power lies. In this powerful and necessary book, James Ball sets out on a global journey into the inner workings of the system. From