John Marshall has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Free Is Bad.
Free Is Bad
Summary
Almost everything we consume online is free. Email, search, news, entertainment. But those apps on our phones aren't really free - so if we're not paying, who is? The surveillance marketing industry. It doesn't have to be this way. Web pioneers tried to invent new payment methods. Google's founders were dead set against advertising. Email wasn't always open to data mining. Yet here we are. Why? Because business can exploit our desire that "Information wants to be free", and yet someone needs to pay. It started way back in the early days of the republic, evolved with newspapers, radio and broadcast TV, and persists today online. Be the customer, not the product. In Free Is Bad, digital marketing entrepreneur John Marshall explores the web industry's early history and its search for viable business models. It's an investigation of how an evolutionary accident in the design of the web resulted in the ad-tech industry, enabling "free" as the default model for technology products like search and email, and for media products like news and entertainment. How did we become the product? Why that has led to the fracturing of society How new, people-first businesses are improving matters Free Is Bad offers not just a critique but optimism for a future where we control our online destiny. It also provides practical steps that will immediately improve your privacy and quality of information. Ultimately, we're better off being the customer and not the product, because Free Is Bad. This book explains why that is, and what you can do about it.
©2020 John Marshall (P)2020 John Marshall
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by John Marshall
Summary
A Short History of Greek Philosophy takes the listener on a tour of the golden age of philosophy. Marshall shines a spotlight on the origins of Western thought, giving an elegant and concise review of the major philosophers and schools of thought in Greece. He begins at the dawn of the era with Thales and Anaximander, and visits every notable originator of thought in Greek history, leading finally to the Sceptics, Epicureans, and Stoics. In this slim work, the works of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are explored with precision and grace. Marshall details the philosophical context that created the foundation for the greatest thinkers in Western history and shows the road taken by philosophy as a result of their influence. A Short History of Greek Philosophy covers the vast subject of Greek philosophy in a way that is simultaneously brief, authentic, and interesting. It is accessible to the casual listener and explores the subject with a depth and clarity that will appeal to the serious philosopher. Twenty-five editions of this work have been published since it was originally written in 1891. Marshall's comprehensive handling of Greek philosophy has been recognized by scholars and universities and is currently held by more than 600 libraries worldwide. This version of the work is preceded by a summary that effectively reviews the major ideas present in each section, giving the new listener an easy entry point to this vast wealth of material, and giving a review for those already versed in the subject. It is an excellent introduction to Greek philosophy that will appeal to students of philosophy and to anyone interested in the basis of Western thinking.
©2017 AudioLearn (P)2017 AudioLearn
Wide-Open World
Summary
His 20-year marriage was floundering. His two teenage kids were lost in cyberspace most of the time. He felt disconnected from his work, his family, his life. Which is when he had an idea: Let's volunteer our way around the world. John Marshall had read about the growth of voluntourism, and frankly, it was the only kind of extended trip he could afford. He'd heard that some peoples' lives were changed by a week of overseas service - what might half a year accomplish for his family? His wife, Traca, was all in favor of it; his kids, especially his 14-year-old daughter, were strongly opposed. Wide-Open World is the totally engaging, bluntly honest story of the Marshall family's life-changing adventure: six months of world travel, volunteering their way from Costa Rica to New Zealand to East Asia, how it went and what it led to. As Marshall discovered, he and his family did not change the world; the world changed them.
©2015 John Marshall (P)2015 Recorded Books