Audiobook8 hours
The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age
Written by Andrew O'Hagan
Narrated by Liam Gerrard
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
()
About this audiobook
The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL-"in real life"-now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.
In The Secret Life, the essayist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and IRL. “Ghosting” introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseen-and unforgettable-consequences. “The Invention of Ronnie Pinn” finds the author using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey deep into the Web's darkest realms. And “The Satoshi Affair” chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian Web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto-and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth.
In The Secret Life, the essayist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and IRL. “Ghosting” introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseen-and unforgettable-consequences. “The Invention of Ronnie Pinn” finds the author using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey deep into the Web's darkest realms. And “The Satoshi Affair” chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian Web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto-and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth.
Author
Andrew O'Hagan
ANDREW O'HAGAN was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His previous novels have been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the E. M. Forster Award.
Related to The Secret Life
Related audiobooks
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTotally Wired: The Rise and Fall of Josh Harris and The Great Dotcom Swindle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Journalist and the Murderer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech's War on Conservatives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Worm: The First Digital World War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The New Geography of Jobs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Snowden's Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Today's Authors Series: A Q&A with David Kushner and Jon "Jonny Magic" Finkel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the Black Market Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Computers For You
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Data Science For Dummies: 2nd Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cybersecurity For Dummies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Artificial Intelligence For Dummies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Computer Science Beginners Crash Course: Coding Data, Python, Algorithms & Hacking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Computational Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Elon Musk Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking 2nd Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Machine Learning: Deep Learning, Text Analytics, and Reinforcement Learning with Big Data Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Secret Life
Rating: 3.499999936842105 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
19 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fascinating and tittilating. Leaves me wanting more. Great writing and reading.