Mark Little is an entrepreneur and journalist working to understand the impact of technology on media and democracy. Mark is the co-founder of Kinzen, which used AI and human analysis to detect online harms, and the founder of Storyful, the world's first social news agency. Mark has worked on trust and safety issues at Spotify, and developed media partnerships for Twitter. He is a former TV presenter and foreign correspondent for RTE, and was a member of the Future of Media Commission, tasked with mapping the future of public media in Ireland.
'A masterclass in how the internet actually works, written by someone who built it up, watched it break, and refuses to give up on it. Essential reading for anyone who lives online. Which is to say, everyone.' Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Senior Correspondent
Do you remember when the internet felt like a shared playground? When strangers around the world connected over something as simple as the colour of a dress?
In The Last Good Day on the Internet, journalist, entrepreneur and digital pioneer Mark Little takes us back to a web built on curiosity, community and possibility.
And shows us what happened next.
Drawing on his unique experience as the founder of two internet start-ups, Storyful and Kinzen, and working with Twitter and Spotify, Little charts the rise of the attention economy and the relentless pursuit of scale that fuelled the toxic algorithms, hate, misinformation and division of today's online world.
As AI reshapes our future, Little then asks the question that matters most: What if we could take the internet back?
