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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

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By (author): Hal Abelson Harry Lewis Ken Ledeen Wendy Seltzer

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 that's 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.

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  • Weight: 486g
  • Dimensions: 250 x 230mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Nov 2019
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780134850016

About Hal AbelsonHarry LewisKen LedeenWendy Seltzer

Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT and an IEEE Fellow. He has helped drive innovative educational technology initiatives such MIT OpenCourseWare co-founded Creative Commons and Public Knowledge and was founding director of the Free Software Foundation. Ken Ledeen Chairman/CEO of Nevo Technologies is a serial entrepreneur who has served on the boards of numerous technology companies. Harry Lewis former Dean of Harvard College and of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is Gordon McKay Research Professor of Computer Science at Harvard and Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He is author of Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? and editor of Ideas that Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science. Wendy Seltzer is Counsel and Strategy Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) based at MIT. She founded Lumen Database the pioneering transparency report for online content removals.

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