The fall of the Internet is just a matter of time. The Internet will collapse and we will experience waves of panic. Sounds like a kind of Apocalypse? Yet, it is not...

In this book, Ester Paniagua describes the chaos that a major "blackout" of the Internet could bring, in conjunction with how dependent we are on it. She reveals who the guardians of the Internet are and opens the door to the darker side of cyberspace, examining the various forms of crime as well as addiction that lurk within it.

She teaches us who turned bacon and eggs into the quintessential American breakfast and what this has to do with manipulation. She traces online misinformation, polarization, and incendiary, bigoted discourse. She analyzes how social discrimination, censorship, and overall oppression have become automated.

Ultimately, she reveals the hidden function of a digital tyranny that even George Orwell and Aldous Huxley could not have imagined in all its manifestations. Error 404 is not a dystopia. It is a thoroughly documented treatise aimed at awakening us before it is too late.

These pages expose all the significant and timely issues concerning the Internet, with a critical yet solution-focused perspective, as the author argues that we still have reasons to hope.

“An urgent and necessary call to reimagine and redesign the Internet for the common good.” Maria Sefidari, president of the Wikimedia Foundation

“A comprehensive, accurate, and enlightening analysis of the present, as a tool for creating the future. It reads like a novel.” Mario Tascon, journalist and author, founder of the digital communications company Prodigioso Volcán

“A terrifying tale of the end of the world, so detailed and thorough that you will never see the Internet with the same eyes again.” Toni Garcia, journalist and author

“When you connect brilliant minds, brilliant things happen. But when you link Ester Paniagua with those who have most changed our lives and the world... this essential reading emerges, for all of us who intend to keep changing the world.” Andreu Veà-Baró, former president of Internet Society (ISOC-ES), also known as "the biographer of the Internet"