Blown To Bits, 2nd Edition

Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion


Blown To Bits, 2nd Edition
Blown To Bits, 2nd Edition
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Book Details

Authors Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis, Wendy Seltzer
Publisher Pearson
Published 2020
Edition 2nd
Paperback 336 pages
Language English
ISBN-13 9780134850016
ISBN-10 0134850017
License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Book Description

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 you - and 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)


This book is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA), which means that you are free to copy, distribute, and modify it, as long as you credit the original author, don't use it for commercial purposes, and share any adaptations under the same license.

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