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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

Autor Hal Abelson, Wendy Seltzer, Harry Lewis, Ken Ledeen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 dec 2020

What you must know to protect yourself today
The digital technology explosion has blown everything to bits--and the blast has provided new challenges and opportunities. This second edition of Blown to Bits delivers the knowledge you need to take greater control of your information environment and thrive in a world that's coming whether you like it or not.
Straight from internationally respected Harvard/MIT experts, this plain-English bestseller has been fully revised for the latest controversies over social media, "fake news," big data, cyberthreats, privacy, artificial intelligence and machine learning, self-driving cars, the Internet of Things, and much more.

  • Discover who owns all that data about you--and what they can infer from it
  • Learn to challenge algorithmic decisions
  • See how close you can get to sending truly secure messages
  • Decide whether you really want always-on cameras and microphones
  • Explore the realities of Internet free speech
  • Protect yourself against out-of-control technologies (and the powerful organizations that wield them)


You'll find clear explanations, practical examples, and real insight into what digital tech means to you--as an individual, and as a citizen.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780134850016
ISBN-10: 0134850017
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 155 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:2. Auflage
Editura: Pearson

Notă biografică

Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, and an IEEE Fellow. He has helped drive innovative educational technology initiatives such MIT OpenCourseWare, co-founded Creative Commons and Public Knowledge, and was founding director of the Free Software Foundation.


Ken Ledeen, Chairman/CEO of Nevo Technologies, is a serial entrepreneur who has served on the boards of numerous technology companies.


Harry Lewis, former Dean of Harvard College and of Harvards School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is Gordon McKay Research Professor of Computer Science at Harvard and Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He is author of Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? and editor of Ideas that Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science.


Wendy Seltzer is Counsel and Strategy Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), based at MIT. She founded Lumen Database, the pioneering transparency report for online content removals.
 


Cuprins

Preface     xvii
 
Chapter 1  Digital Explosion
 
Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake?     1
 
The Explosion of Bits, and Everything Else     4
 
The Koans of Bits     7
 
Good and Ill, Promise and Peril     17
 
Endnotes     19
 
Chapter 2  Naked in the Sunlight
 
Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned     21
 
1984 Is Here, and We Like It     21
 
Location, Location, Location     27
 
Big Brother, Abroad and in the United States     32
 
The Internet of Things     42
 
Endnotes     48
 
Chapter 3  Who Owns Your Privacy?
 
The Commercialization of Personal Data     51
 
What Kind of Vegetable Are You?     51
 
Footprints and Fingerprints     57
 
Fair Information Practice Principles     64
 
Always On     70
 
Endnotes     71
 
Chapter 4  Gatekeepers
 
Whos in Charge Here?     75
 
Who Controls the Flow of Bits?     75
 
The Open Internet?     76
 
Connecting the Dots: Designed for Sharing and Survival     79
 
The Internet Has No Gatekeepers?     85
 
Links Gatekeepers: Getting Connected     86
 
Search Gatekeepers: If You Cant Find It, Does It Exist?     94
 
Social Gatekeepers: Known by the Company You Keep     104
 
Endnotes     112
 
Chapter 5  Secret Bits
 
How Codes Became Unbreakable     117
 
Going Dark     117
 
Historical Cryptography     122
 
Lessons for the Internet Age     131
 
Secrecy Changes Forever     135
 
Cryptography Unsettled     147
 
Endnotes     148
 
Chapter 6  Balance Toppled
 
Who Owns the Bits?     153
 
Stealing Music     153
 
Automated Crimes, Automated Justice     155
 
The Peer-to-Peer Upheaval     160
 
No Commercial Skipping     167
 
Authorized Use Only     168
 
Forbidden Technology     172
 
Copyright Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance     177
 
The Limits of Property     183
 
Endnotes     187
 
Chapter 7  You Cant Say That on the Internet
 
Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression     193
 
Child Sex Trafficking Goes Digital     193
 
Publisher or Distributor?     198
 
Protecting Good Samaritansand a Few Bad Ones     205
 
Digital Protection, Digital Censorship, and Self-Censorship     215
 
What About Social Media?     219
 
Takedowns     221
 
Endnotes     222
 
Chapter 8  Bits in the Air
 
Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and Free Speech     227
 
Censoring the Candidate     227
 
How Broadcasting Became Regulated     228
 
The Path to Spectrum Deregulation     241
 
The Most Beautiful Inventor in the World     245
 
What Does the Future Hold for Radio?     255
 
Endnotes     261
 
Chapter 9  The Next Frontier
 
AI and the Bits World of the Future     265
 
Thrown Under a Jaywalking Bus     266
 
Whats Intelligent About Artificial Intelligence?     267
 
Machine Learning: Ill Figure It Out     268
 
Algorithmic Decisions: I Thought Only People Could Do That     273
 
Whats Next     277
 
Bits Lighting Up the World     282
 
A Few Bits in Conclusion     287
 
Endnotes     288
 
Index     293