Blown to Bits

Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

Nonfiction, Computers
Cover of the book Blown to Bits by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis, Pearson Education
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Author: Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis ISBN: 9780132797436
Publisher: Pearson Education Publication: September 25, 2012
Imprint: Addison-Wesley Professional Language: English
Author: Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis
ISBN: 9780132797436
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication: September 25, 2012
Imprint: Addison-Wesley Professional
Language: English

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.

Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and ones: bits. We can’t escape this explosion of digital information and few of us want to–the benefits are too seductive. The technology has enabled unprecedented innovation, collaboration, entertainment, and democratic participation.

 

But the same engineering marvels are shattering centuries-old assumptions about privacy, identity, free expression, and personal control as more and more details of our lives are captured as digital data.

 

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. This book is a wake-up call to the human consequences of the digital explosion.

 

 

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This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.

Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and ones: bits. We can’t escape this explosion of digital information and few of us want to–the benefits are too seductive. The technology has enabled unprecedented innovation, collaboration, entertainment, and democratic participation.

 

But the same engineering marvels are shattering centuries-old assumptions about privacy, identity, free expression, and personal control as more and more details of our lives are captured as digital data.

 

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. This book is a wake-up call to the human consequences of the digital explosion.

 

 

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