Mark Weinstein: Restoring Our Sanity Online

Mark Weinstein: Restoring Our Sanity Online

Author: WPKN, Jim Motavalli March 20, 2025 Duration: 18:08

Mark Weinstein's new book is Restoring Our Sanity Online: A Revolutionary Social Framework, published by Wiley. Here, he dissects Web 1, until 2001, Web 2--our current state of "Surveillance Capitalism" with dominance by Facebook and Google--and the hopefully more enlightened and less privacy-invading states of Web 3 and Web 4. 


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Author: Language: English Episodes: 47

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Podcast Episodes
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Duration: 30:59
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Maria Muldaur [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:22
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