December 2020
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
10h 31m
English
book
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, 2nd Edition
by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Wendy Seltzer, Harry Lewis
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Chapter 1
Digital Explosion
Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake?
This book isn’t about computers. It’s about your life and mine. It’s about how the ground underneath us has shifted in fundamental ways. We all know it is happening. We see it all around us, every day. We all need to understand it more.
The digital explosion is changing everything. In this book we talk about both what is happening and how. We explain the technology itself—why it creates so many surprises and why things often don’t work the way we expect them to. It is also about things the information explosion is destroying: old assumptions about our privacy, about our identity, and about who is in control of our lives. It’s about how we got this way, what we are losing, ...