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Nick Bilton Livres

    Nick Bilton est un correspondant spécial pour Vanity Fair, où il écrit sur la technologie, la politique, les affaires et la culture. Il est également un contributeur à CNBC et un ancien chroniqueur et journaliste pour The New York Times. Son travail explore des récits complexes, mettant souvent en lumière les éléments humains et les motivations sous-jacentes qui animent des développements significatifs. L'approche analytique de Bilton et son talent pour découvrir les dynamiques en coulisses offrent aux lecteurs des perspectives uniques sur les mondes des affaires et de la technologie.

    I Live in the Future & Here's how it Works
    Hatching Twitter : how a fledling start-up became a multibillion-dollar business & accidentally changed the world
    American Kingpin

    • American Kingpin

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      The rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In 2011, a young programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched an illicit website hidden deep on the Dark Web. The Silk Road was the ultimate free market where anyone could trade anything using Bitcoins - steroids, heroin, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons - free of the government's watchful eye. The Silk Road quickly ballooned into a $1.2 billion enterprise and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin, including ordering a hit on a former employee. As Ross made plans to disappear forever, the Feds raced against the clock to catch a man they weren't sure even existed, searching for a needle in the haystack of the global internet"--Publisher's description.

      American Kingpin
      4,4

    • I Live in the Future & Here's how it Works

      A technology guru at the forefront of Internet developments provides a layperson's explanation of how a radically changed media world is influencing human behavior, sharing recommendations for short- and long-term responses.

      I Live in the Future & Here's how it Works
      3,5