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Virtual Unreality: Just Because The Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True? (2014)

by Charles Seife(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0670026085 (ISBN13: 9780670026081)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: VIRTUAL UNREALITY: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True? (2014). Charles Seife. ****.The writer is a competent writer about subjects in science, and in this, his latest work, he takes on the internet. After a brief history of the system, he then gets into how it is abused, along with its users by a medley of forces. He cites lots of scams and schemes to force surfers to specific web sites. He looks at some of the underhanded ways that users can, and have been, cheated by unscrupulous web masters. He relates stories about hackers and criminals who use the internet as a game platform to either hack into your information or to infect your computer with malicious bugs. The main focus of the book, though, is its reliability (or lack of it) in ... moreproviding information to the user. I was amazed at the goings-on at sites that I thought were completely reliable. My take-away is that I will be a lot more critical of the information I find on the internet in the future. Recommended.
review 2: Won this thanks to Goodreads First Reads!It was a pretty good book. It covered all of the reasons the internet was a scary place. One thing I would have liked was to see people who get their identities stolen on the internet (whether for monetary or aesthetic reasons), since that is very possible. I have friends who are victims of seeing their photos on pornographic sites, dating sites and even Facebook. Really, this book just confirms the internet is a scary place and we have to use our discernment to figure out what or who is or isn't real. It's worth a read. less

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