VIRTUAL UNREALITY

Charles Seife’s book about the Internet reveals surprising things about Amazon, Facebook, Google, email, search engines, sock puppetry, and Wikipedia.

There are fake individuals, academic journals, and corporations.  If something is free, you aren’t the customer; you are the product being sold.  Think about it!

One man has 110,000 books online.  Thanks to widespread education and underemployment, too many people are writing and too few are reading.

We are inundated with books and other print material, most of which is never read and deservedly ends up as trash.