Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0137135599 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Will life explode with new possibilities, or contract under pressure of new horrors? The precipice is both exhilarating and frightening. Can you control who sees all that personal information about you? Can email be truly confidential, when nothing seems to be private? Shouldn't the Internet be censored the way radio and TV are? Is it really a federal crime to download music? When you use Google or Yahoo! to search for something, how do they decide which sites to show you? Do you still have free speech in the digital world? Do you have a voice in shaping government or corporate policies about any of this? "Blown to Bits" offers provocative answers to these questions and tells intriguing real-life stories.
"a great primer on a wide variety of technology policy issues" according to Adam Thierer. Think of this book not as "Internet Policy for Dummies" but as "Internet Policy for the Educated Layman." Abelson, Ledeen, and Lewis survey a broad swath of tech policy territory -- privacy, search, encryption, free speech, copyright, spectrum policy -- and provide the reader with a nice history and technology primer on each topic.The a. Subtitle should be: "When stuck in Cyberflatland " Stephen L Squires This is an important book to read because of the perspective it provides. "Blown to BITS" clearly describes a future of information systems and their users when they get trapped in Cyberflatland. Just like the now well known book Flatland, the people and systems of Cyberflatland are challenged to even imagine the extra dimensions.The au. Chris Gates said My bits are gone and I want them back!. The authors of Blow to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion cover both new and old technologies and how they relate to todays cultural and political climates. Driving home the history of most of the technologies we can't live without and their tumultuous relationship with the legislative and judicial branc
He is author of Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? Together, the authors teach Quantitative Reasoning 48, an innovative Harvard course on information for non-technical, non-mathematically oriented students. . Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and an IEEE Fellow. Ken Ledeen, Chairman/CEO of Nevo Technologies, has served on the boards of numerous technology compa
Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, together, have ably managed to describe the elephant. Miller, Senior Director for Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft Corporation “Most writing about the digital world comes from techies writing about technical matter for other techies or from pundits whose turn of phrase greatly exceeds their technical knowledge. The result is a long, friendly talk with the genie, out of the lamp, and willing to help you avoid making the traditional mistake with that all-important third wish.”–David Warsh, Author of Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations “Blown to Bits is one of the clearest expositions I’ve seen of the social and political issues arising from the Internet. “If you want to understand the future before it happens, you’ll love this book. Blown to Bits is a remarkable and essential Rosetta Stone for beginning to figu