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Blown to Bits : Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAddison Wesley Professional
ISBN-100137135599
ISBN-139780137135592
eBay Product ID (ePID)65635963
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBlown to Bits : Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion
SubjectSocial Aspects / General, General, Digital Media / General, Information Technology
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
AuthorHal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis
Subject AreaComputers, Technology & Engineering
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight22.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-005910
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal303.48/33
Table Of ContentPreface xiii Chapter 1: Digital Explosion: Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake? 1 Chapter 2: Naked in the Sunlight: Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned 19 Chapter 3: Ghosts in the Machine: Secrets and Surprises of Electronic Documents 73 Chapter 4: Needles in the Haystack: Google and Other Brokers in the Bits Bazaar 109 Chapter 5: Secret Bits: How Codes Became Unbreakable 161 Chapter 6: Balance Toppled: Who Owns the Bits? 195 Chapter 7: You Can't Say That on the Internet: Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression 229 Chapter 8: Bits in the Air: Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and Free Speech 259 Conclusion: After the Explosion 295 Appendix: The Internet as System and Spirit 301 Endnotes 317 Index 347
Synopsis"If you want to understand the future before it happens, you'll love this book. If you want to change the future before it happens to you, this book is required reading." - Reed Hundt , former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission "There is no simpler or clearer statement of the radical change that digital technologies will bring, nor any book that better prepares one for thinking about the next steps." - Lawrence Lessig , Stanford Law School and Author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace " Blown to Bits will blow you away. In highly accessible and always fun prose, it explores all the nooks and crannies of the digital universe, exploring not only how this exploding space works but also what it means." - Debora Spar , President of Barnard College, Author of Ruling the Waves and The Baby Business "This is a wonderful book-probably the best since Hal Varian and Carl Schultz wrote Digital Rules . The authors are engineers, not economists. The result is a long, friendly talk with the genie, out of the lamp, and willing to help you avoid making the traditional mistake with that all-important third wish." - David Warsh , Author of Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations " Blown to Bits is one of the clearest expositions I've seen of the social and political issues arising from the Internet. Its remarkably clear explanations of how the Net actually works lets the hot air out of some seemingly endless debates. You've made explaining this stuff look easy. Congratulations " - David Weinberger , Coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto and Author of Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder . " Blown to Bits is a timely, important, and very readable take on how information is produced and consumed today, and more important, on the approaching sea change in the way that we as a society deal with the consequences." - Craig Silverstein , Director of Technology, Google, Inc. "This book gives an overview of the kinds of issues confronting society as we become increasingly dependent on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Every informed citizen should read this book and then form their own opinion on these and related issues. And after reading this book you will rethink how (and even whether) you use the Web to form your opinions..." - James S. Miller , Senior Director for Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft Corporation "Most writing about the digital world comes from techies writing about technical matter for other techies or from pundits whose turn of phrase greatly exceeds their technical knowledge. In Blown to Bits , experts in computer science address authoritatively the practical issues in which we all have keen interest." - Howard Gardner , Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Author of Multiple Intelligences and Changing Minds "Regardless of your experience with computers, Blown to Bits provides a uniquely entertaining and informative perspective from the computing industry's greatest minds. A fascinating, insightful and entertaining book that helps you understand computers and their impact on the world in a whole new way. This is a rare book that explains the impact of the digital explosion in a way that everyone can understand and, at the same time, challenges experts to think in new ways." - Anne Margulies , Assistant Secretary for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts " Blown to Bits is fun and fundamental. What a pleasure to see real teachers offering such excellent framework for students in a digital age to explore and understand their digital environment, code and law, starting with the insight of Claude Shannon., "If you want to understand the future before it happens, you''ll love this book. If you want to change the future before it happens to you, this book is required reading." - Reed Hundt , former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission "There is no simpler or clearer statement of the radical change that digital technologies will bring, nor any book that better prepares one for thinking about the next steps." - Lawrence Lessig , Stanford Law School and Author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace " Blown to Bits will blow you away. In highly accessible and always fun prose, it explores all the nooks and crannies of the digital universe, exploring not only how this exploding space works but also what it means." - Debora Spar , President of Barnard College, Author of Ruling the Waves and The Baby Business "This is a wonderful book-probably the best since Hal Varian and Carl Schultz wrote Digital Rules . The authors are engineers, not economists. The result is a long, friendly talk with the genie, out of the lamp, and willing to help you avoid making the traditional mistake with that all-important third wish." - David Warsh , Author of Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations " Blown to Bits is one of the clearest expositions I''ve seen of the social and political issues arising from the Internet. Its remarkably clear explanations of how the Net actually works lets the hot air out of some seemingly endless debates. You''ve made explaining this stuff look easy. Congratulations!" - David Weinberger , Coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto and Author of Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder . " Blown to Bits is a timely, important, and very readable take on how information is produced and consumed today, and more important, on the approaching sea change in the way that we as a society deal with the consequences." - Craig Silverstein , Director of Technology, Google, Inc. "This book gives an overview of the kinds of issues confronting society as we become increasingly dependent on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Every informed citizen should read this book and then form their own opinion on these and related issues. And after reading this book you will rethink how (and even whether) you use the Web to form your opinions..." - James S. Miller , Senior Director for Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft Corporation "Most writing about the digital world comes from techies writing about technical matter for other techies or from pundits whose turn of phrase greatly exceeds their technical knowledge. In Blown to Bits , experts in computer science address authoritatively the practical issues in which we all have keen interest." - Howard Gardner , Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Author of Multiple Intelligences and Changing Minds "Regardless of your experience with computers, Blown to Bits provides a uniquely entertaining and informative perspective from the computing industry''s greatest minds. A fascinating, insightful and entertaining book that helps you understand computers and their impact on the world in a whole new way. This is a rare book that explains the impact of the digital explosion in a way that everyone can understand and, at the same time, challenges experts to think in new ways." - Anne Margulies , Assistant Secretary for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts " Blown to Bits is fun and fundamental. What a pleasure to see real teachers offering such excellent framework for students in a digital age to expl
LC Classification NumberQA76.9.C66A245 2008
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- 10 Aug, 2021
Required Summer Reading
This book was required summer reading for my child. The school provided free access to an electronic version, but we prefer hard copies, so we ordered this book. It was inexpensive, arrived quickly, and was in near new condition. My daughter is not a "reader" but started it last week and is up to the "Conclusion" chapter, so I guess it was fairly readable. Plus, she keeps dropping little factoids from the book, so I know she's getting something out of it. After this past year, it's just nice to see that her brain isn't mush.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
