Book description
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 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 organizations that wield them)
You will find clear explanations, practical examples, and real insight into what digital tech means to you--as an individual, and as a citizen.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents at a Glance
- Register Your Book
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Digital Explosion Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake?
- Chapter 2 Naked in the Sunlight Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned
- Chapter 3 Who Owns Your Privacy? The Commercialization of Personal Data
- Chapter 4 Gatekeepers Who’s in Charge Here?
- Chapter 5 Secret Bits How Codes Became Unbreakable
- Chapter 6 Balance Toppled Who Owns the Bits?
- Chapter 7 You Can’t Say That on the Internet Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression
- Chapter 8 Bits in the Air Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and Free Speech
- Chapter 9 The Next Frontier AI and the Bits World of the Future
- Index
- Code Snippets
Product information
- Title: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2020
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780134850054
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