Talks about how the Internet and related technologies have infiltrated our daily lives, how it is changing established social patterns, eroding older technologies at a hugely accelerated rate.

We are in the midst of a profound social transformation. Friedman looks at what has happened so far and sends us reports from the trenches: intellectual property and privacy, identity and privacy, sex and censorship, the machine as fetish, the death of television news, the new workplace, cyber warfare, hate propaganda and the Zapatistos on the Net and more.