Blown to Bits

Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis , Wendy Seltzer

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Pearson Education
03 December 2020

Ethical & social aspects of computing; Computer networking & communications; Network security

The digital technology explosion has blown everything to bitsand the blast has provided new challenges and opportunities. This 2nd edition of Blown to Bits delivers the knowledge you need to take greater control of your information environment and thrive in a world thats 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 youand 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 organisations that wield them)

By: Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis, Wendy Seltzer
Imprint: Pearson Education
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 250mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 486g
ISBN: 9780134850016
ISBN 10: 0134850017
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 03 December 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 Digital Explosion Chapter 2 Naked in the Sunlight Chapter 3 Who Owns Your Privacy? Chapter 4 Gatekeepers Chapter 5 Secret Bits Chapter 6 Balance Toppled Chapter 7 You Cant Say That on the Internet Chapter 8 Bits in the Air Chapter 9 The Next Frontier

Hal Abelson is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and an IEEE Fellow. He has helped drive innovative educational technology initiatives such MIT OpenCourseWare, cofounded Creative Commons and Public Knowledge, and was founding director of the Free Software Foundation. Ken Ledeen, Chairman/CEO of Nevo Technologies, has served on the boards of many technology companies. Harry Lewis, former Dean of Harvard College, is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard. He is author of Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? Together, Abelson, Ledeen, and Lewis have taught Quantitative Reasoning 48, an innovative Harvard course on information for non-technical, non-mathematically oriented students. Wendy Seltzer, is Strategy Lead and Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). She has served as a Fellow with Yale Law School's Information Society Project, Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy; the University of Colorado's Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship; and Harvard Law School's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.