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Paperback An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths Book

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An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths

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There was a time in the not-too-distant past when large companies and powerful governments reigned supreme over the little guy. But new technologies are empowering individuals like never before, and the Davids of the world-the amateur journalists, musicians, and small businessmen and women-are suddenly making a huge economic and social impact.

In Army of Davids, author Glenn Reynolds, the man behind the immensely popular Instapundit.com, provides an in-depth, big-picture point-of-view for a world where the small guys matter more and more. Reynolds explores the birth and growth of the individual's surprisingly strong influence in: arts and entertainment, anti-terrorism, nanotech and space research, and much more.

The balance of power between the individual and the organization is finally evening out. And it's high time the Goliaths of the world pay attention, because, as this book proves, an army of Davids is on the rise.

Endorsements:

"George Orwell feared that technology would enable dictators to enslave the masses. Glenn Reynolds shows that technology can empower individuals to determine their own futures and to defeat those who would enslave us. This is a book of profound importance-and also a darn good read." -MICHAEL BARONE, senior writer at U.S. News & World Report and author of Hard America, Soft America

"Blogger extraordinaire Glenn Reynolds shows how average Americans can use new technologies to overcome the twin demons of corporate greed and incompetent government. Reynolds is a compelling evangelist for the power of the individual to change our world." -ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, author of Pigs at the Trough and Fanatics and Fools

"A smart, fun tour of a major social and economic trend. From home-brewed beer to blogging, Glenn Reynolds is an engaging, uniquely qualified guide to the do-it-yourself movements transforming business, politics, and media." -VIRGINIA POSTREL, Forbes columnist and author of The Future and its Enemies and The Substance of Style

"A student in her dorm room now commands the resources of a multi-million dollar music recording or movie editing studio of not so many years ago. The tools of creativity have been democratized and the tools of production are not far behind (Karl Marx take note). Glenn Reynolds's beguiling new book tells the insightful story of how an 'army of Davids' is inheriting the Earth, leaving a trail of obsolete business models not to mention cultural, economic, and political institutions in its wake." -RAY KURZWEIL, scientist, inventor, and author of several books including The Singularity is Near

'Must-read, ' 'gotta have, ' 'culture-changing' . . . I am suspicious of blurbs with such overused plugs. But Glenn Reynolds's An Army of Davids is in fact a must-read new book that you gotta have if you are going to understand the culture-changing forces that are unleashed and at work across the globe. -HUGH HEWITT, syndicated talk radio host and author of Blog and Painting the Map Red

"Glenn Reynolds has written an essential book for understanding how technology and markets are creating a bottom-up shift in power to ordinary people that is changing business, government, and our world. Packed with fresh ideas and adorned with graceful prose, An Army of Davids is a masterpiece." -JOE TRIPPI, author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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An Army of Davis provides the reader insight into the future. I was drawn to the book by reading the UT law professor's wonderfully detailed book on space law. This book devotes a chapter to space but it is much more rounded in its approach to technology and society. It was a fun and easy yet worthwhile read. It is my hope that the good law professor will some day soon do a new edition to his space law book, however. In the meanwhile, this book is worth the money and the time.

Futurist Optimism

Thematically, there is nothing particularly new here for any regular readers of Instapundit, though this is a magnificent unification of Reynolds' arguments and comments on personal liberation through technology. For those who do not frequent the blog, this book will be quite a different sort of adventure in the future than is usual: so accustomed I am to panic-mongering and doomsaying with books of this sort (froth-mouthed heralding of global warming, virulent pandemics, all of the "coming storm" offal), that this book and others like it (Ray Kurzweil's Singularity, for instance) are a breath of fresh air. The roles of "Big Business", "Big Media" (including Fox News, my rapacious fellow reviewers), and "Big Government" are reevaluated in the face of currently available technology that distributes power in a dynamic, decentralized order that can potentially revolutionize modern society. This is a future I am captivated by and embrace, thus I heartily recommend this book.

Fantastic Book

Ignore the trolling reviews from those with obvious political agendas. It's quite clear they haven't actually read the book, but are just lashing out at anything they perceive as "right-wing." Ignorant political chatter aside, this book is incredible. It's well written, easy to read and get caught up in, and has a range of topics rarely found in any single book. Reynolds writes with personal experience about the many things he's done, and brings in experts for the few that he hasn't. In the book he provides a compelling argument for where technology will be taking us that even made a skeptic like me into a believer. Buy it now, you won't regret it.

A glimpse into the near future...

The story of David and Goliath has survived the centuries and remains an inspiration to this day. But how exactly did David defeat Goliath? He did so with leverage. More specifically, with the leverage of technology. It was the technology of the slingshot that evened the playing field between the giant warrior Goliath and the undersized peasant boy David. In his new book, An Army Of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths (Nelson Current, 2006), successful blogger Glenn Reynolds (otherwise know as Instapundit) lays out a convincing case for the transformative effect of today's technology and the technologies to come. The publishing ease and worldwide reach of the Internet has put individuals in head to head competition with metropolitan newspapers. Thus, the phenomenon known as "the blogosphere". But are blogs the end of the road or just the beginning? Reynolds portends that new technologies will spread the benefits of a captalist marketplace through the increased freedom and entrepreneurism endemic to emerging technologies. The new landscape will enable individuals and small nible organizations to compete with large bureaucracies and stogy old corporate empires. To a certain extent we've witnessed this effect in the likes of Microsoft taking on IBM and the blogosphere taking on Dan Rather and CBS news. However, Reynolds argues that the future will offer more advantages and greater opportunity for enterprising individuals than ever before. Let's hope he's right, because nothing could be more desirable for the human condition than to witness individuals gaining greater freedom, liberty, and personal responsibility to administer their own affairs as they see fit... Britt Gillette Author of 'The Dittohead's Guide To Adult Beverages' (Regnery Publishing, 2005)
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