Blown to Bits, Second Edition is the brilliant, plain-English guide to digital technology, how it's changing the world, and what you need to know to survive in tomorrow's digital world. A best-seller when it was first published in 2010, the issues it addresses are more crucial than ever. Now, its expert authors have thoroughly updated Blown to Bits to demystify the social, political, and personal issues everyone is talking about: from social media and big data to fake news, cyberattacks, and privacy. Both authoritative and accessible, this guide doesn't just reveal the workings of the…mehr
Blown to Bits, Second Edition is the brilliant, plain-English guide to digital technology, how it's changing the world, and what you need to know to survive in tomorrow's digital world. A best-seller when it was first published in 2010, the issues it addresses are more crucial than ever. Now, its expert authors have thoroughly updated Blown to Bits to demystify the social, political, and personal issues everyone is talking about: from social media and big data to fake news, cyberattacks, and privacy. Both authoritative and accessible, this guide doesn't just reveal the workings of the technologies that are central to your life: it also illuminates the policy decisions citizens need to make about these technologies... because you can try to ignore them, but they won't ignore you!Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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 Harvard's 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.
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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 Who's 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 Can't 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 Can't 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 What's Intelligent About Artificial Intelligence? 267 Machine Learning: I'll Figure It Out 268 Algorithmic Decisions: I Thought Only People Could Do That 273 What's Next 277 Bits Lighting Up the World 282 A Few Bits in Conclusion 287 Endnotes 288 Index 293
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 Who's 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 Can't 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 Can't 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 What's Intelligent About Artificial Intelligence? 267 Machine Learning: I'll Figure It Out 268 Algorithmic Decisions: I Thought Only People Could Do That 273 What's Next 277 Bits Lighting Up the World 282 A Few Bits in Conclusion 287 Endnotes 288 Index 293
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