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Is the culture of the Web something genuinely new, or is it merely "human nature plugged-in"? The extreme points of view on this—call them the Huxleyan and the Luddite—consider the same phenomena, trends and evidence and invariably arrive at wildly different conclusions. Wendy Grossman, who is a freelance writer living in London, wrote an earlier book, net.wars, about the Internet in its infancy, to which the present volume can be seen as a sequel.