Product Description: This is the first book of its kind to explore the "meaning" of the Internet. You will learn how the Internet, begun as a military project, took on a life of its own that is: shifting power from institutions to individuals; transforming our global economy by removing middlemen from all sorts of transactions; ensuring the free flow of information around the world; changing the way we thinkfrom linear to multi-dimensional; connecting and empowering people in ways never before possible; and creating millions of communities, linked together in one great, ever-changing global community...read more