{"product_id":"our-biggest-fight-reclaiming-liberty-humanity-and-dignity-in-the-digital-age-hardcover","title":"Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank H. McCourt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael J. Casey\u003c\/b\u003e (With)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The internet as we know it is broken. Here's how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet--before it's too late.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In the spirit of Thomas Paine's Revolution-era \u003ci\u003eCommon Sense\u003c\/i\u003e, this manifesto challenges us to create new digital architectures to safeguard democracy.\"--Walter Isaacson, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eElon Musk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was once a utopian dream. But today's internet, despite its conveniences and connectivity, is the primary cause of a pervasive unease that has taken hold in the U.S. and other democratic societies. It's why youth suicide rates are rising, why politics has become toxic, and why our most important institutions are faltering. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInformation is the lifeblood of any society, and our current system for distributing it is corrupted at its heart. Everything comes down to our ability to communicate openly and trustfully with each other. But, thanks to the dominant digital platforms and the ways they distort human behavior, we have lost that ability--while, at the same time, we've been robbed of the data that is rightfully ours. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe roots of this crisis, argue Frank McCourt and Michael Casey, lie in the prevailing order of the internet. In plain but forceful language, the authors--a civic entrepreneur and an acclaimed journalist--show how a centralized system controlled by a small group of for-profit entities has set this catastrophe in motion and eroded our personhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd then they describe a groundbreaking solution to reclaim it: rather than superficial, patchwork regulations, we must reimagine the very architecture of the internet. The resulting \"third-generation internet\" would replace the status quo with a new model marked by digital property rights, autonomy, and ownership. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by historical calls to action like Thomas Paine's \u003ci\u003eCommon Sense\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOur Biggest Fight \u003c\/i\u003eargues that we must act now to embed the core values of a free, democratic society in the internet of tomorrow. Do it right and we will finally, properly, unlock its immense potential.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank H. McCourt, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e is the executive chairman of McCourt Global, a private family enterprise working across the real estate, sports, technology, media, and capital investment industries. He is the founder and executive chairman of Project Liberty, a broad-based effort to build a better web for a better world. The project includes the development of an open internet protocol (the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol), which shifts data rights from platforms to people, and an institute--launched with founding partners Georgetown University, Stanford University, and Sciences Po--to advance research and develop a governance framework for the internet's next era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael J. Casey\u003c\/b\u003e is Chief Content Officer at the award-winning media company CoinDesk, host of the \"Money Reimagined\" podcast, and the Chairman of the Consensus conference. He has worked as a journalist on five continents, including eighteen years with Dow Jones and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and was a founding staffer at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative. Casey's previous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Cryptocurrency\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Social Organism, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Truth Machine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748843618592,"sku":"9780593728512","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3c4c10ee7b6307feccd714d0a9f594ff.webp?v=1779917861","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/our-biggest-fight-reclaiming-liberty-humanity-and-dignity-in-the-digital-age-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}