Authors@Google: Micah Sifry

"Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency"

Micah L. Sifry, "a leading participant in and observer of how the Internet is changing politics and society," brings us a new book on what WikiLeaks means for the future — and present — of governmental and corporate transparency.

Sifry sees WikiLeaks as a symptom, an indicator of an ongoing generational and philosophical struggle between older, closed systems, and the new open culture of the Internet. "What is new," he writes, "is our ability to connect, individually and together, with greater ease than at any time in human history. As a result, information is flowing more freely into the public arena, powered by seemingly unstoppable networks of people all over the world cooperating to share vital data and prevent its suppression."

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