Public Parts

Jarvis (What Would Google Do?) takes a comprehensive look at the core element undermining so much of the technology and services emerging today: the ever-increasing public nature of life online. Overjoyed by what the Internet has accomplished thus far and the opportunities it has made possible for business and personal life, Jarvis feels passionately about privacy and security issues, which he believes could threaten this new sphere. With the many online privacy advocates dominating the public conversation about information sharing, Jarvis champions openness. His book covers only the benefits of Internet publicness happening today or coming in the near future. All of the negative consequences of the Internet's social connectedness are ignored, dismissed as something society needs to resolve, or justified under the guise of current laws and norms that may not match a majority of people's beliefs. Intellectual property infringement, a core battle area, never comes up.