Access Rules by Viktor Mayer-Schnberger, Thomas Ramge - 9780520387737

University of California Press

Access RulesFreeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future\nAuthor(s): Viktor Mayer-Schnberger, Thomas Ramge\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of California Press, United States\nImprint: University of California Press\nISBN-13: 9780520387737, 978-0520387737\nSynopsis\nA powerful and urgent call to action: to improve our lives and our societies, we must demand open access to data for all.\n Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone. By forcing data-hoarding companies to open access to their data, we can reinvigorate both our economy and our society. Authors Viktor Mayer-Schnberger and Thomas Ramge contend that if we disrupt monopoly power and create a level playing field, digital innovations can emerge to benefit us all.\n Over the past twenty years, Big Tech has managed to centralize the mo.