Prologue : why this book?
Take the long view
The Web is not the Net
For the Net, disruption is a feature, not a bug
Think ecology, not just economics
Complexity is the new reality
The network is now the computer
The Web is evolving
Copyrights and "copywrongs," or, Why our intellectual property regime no longer makes sense
Orwell vs. Huxley : the bookends of our networked future?
Epilogue

A history of the Internet traces its rise from a technological novelty to the essential utility of the Information Age to consider how society takes for granted a basic component that it barely understands, distilling the Internet's evolution into nine essential areas of understanding to lend insight into the information economy and how it can be more effectively used