Blown to bits: your life, liberty, and happiness after the digital explosion
Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and ones: bits. We can't escape this explosion of digital information and few of us want to; the benefits are too seductive. The technol...
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Zusammenfassung: | Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and ones: bits. We can't escape this explosion of digital information and few of us want to; the benefits are too seductive. The technology has enabled unprecedented innovation, collaboration, entertainment, and democratic participation. But the same engineering marvels are shattering centuries old assumptions about privacy, identity, free expression, and personal control as more and more details of our lives are captured as digital data. Do you control who sees all that personal information about you? Can email be truly confidential, when nothing seems to be private? Shouldn't the Internet be censored the way radio and TV are? Is it really a federal crime to download music? When you use Google or Yahoo! to search for something, how do they decide which sites to show you? Do you still have free speech in the digital world? Do you have a voice in shaping government or corporate policies about any of this? This book offers provocative answers to these questions and tells intriguing real life stories; it is a wake-up call to the human consequences of the digital explosion. |
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adam_text | Contents
Preface
XIII
Chapter
1
Digital
Explosion
Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake?
.........1
The Explosion of Bits, and Everything Else
.......... 2
The Koans of Bits
............................4
Good and 111, Promise and Peril
..................13
Chapter
2
Naked in the Sunlight
Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned
..................19
1984
Is Here, and We Like It
....................19
Footprints and Fingerprints
.....................22
Why We Lost Our Privacy, or Gave It Away
.........36
Little Brother Is Watching
......................42
Big Brother, Abroad and in the U.S.
..............48
Technology Change and Lifestyle Change
..........55
Beyond Privacy
..............................61
Chapter
3
Ghosts in the Machine
Secrets and Surprises of Electronic Documents
......73
What You See Is Not What the Computer Knows
____73
Representation, Reality, and Illusion
..............80
Hiding Information in Images
..................94
The Scary Secrets of Old Disks
..................99
X BLOWN TO BITS
Chapter
4
Needles in the Haystack
Google and Other Brokers in the Bits Bazaar
...-----109
Found After Seventy Years
....................109
The Library and the Bazaar
....................110
The Fall of Hierarchy
.........................117
It Matters How It Works
......................120
Who Pays, and for What?
.....................138
Search Is Power
............................145
You Searched for WHAT? Tracking Searches
.......156
Regulating or Replacing the Brokers
.............158
Chapter
5
Secret Bits
How Codes Became Unbreakable
................161
Encryption in the Hands of Terrorists, and
Everyone Else
.............................161
Historical Cryptography
......................165
Lessons for the Internet Age
...................174
Secrecy Changes Forever
.....................178
Cryptography for Everyone
...................187
Cryptography Unsettled
......................191
Chapter
6
Balance Toppled
Who Owns the Bits?
..........................195
Automated Crimes-Automated, Justice
...........195
NET Act Makes Sharing a Crime
................199
The Peer-to-Peer Upheaval
....................201
Sharing Goes Decentralized
...................204
Authorized Use Only
.........................209
Forbidden Technology
.......................213
Copyright Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
......219
The Limits of Property
.......................225
Chapter
7
You Can t Say That on the Internet
Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression
.......229
Do You Know Where Your Child Is on the
Web Tonight?
.............................229
CONTENTS
XI
Metaphors for Something Unlike Anything Else
.... 231
Publisher or Distributor?
. ....................234
Neither Liberty nor Security
...................235
The Nastiest Place on Earth
...................237
The Most Participatory Form of Mass Speech
......239
Protecting Good Samaritans-and a Few Bad Ones
.. 242
Laws of Unintended Consequences
..............245
Can the Internet Be Like a Magazine Store?
.......247
Let Your Fingers Do the Stalking
...............249
Like an Annoying Telephone Call?
..............251
Digital Protection, Digital Censorship-and Self-
Censorship
................................253
Chapter
8
Bits in the Air
Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and
Free Speech
.................................259
Censoring the President
.......................259
How Broadcasting Became Regulated
............260
The Path to Spectrum Deregulation
.............273
What Does the Future Hold for Radio?
...........288
Conclusion
After the Explosion
...........................295
Bits Lighting Up the World
....................295
A Few Bits in Conclusion
.....................299
Appendix
The Internet as System and Spirit
................301
The Internet as a Communication System
.........301
The Internet Spirit
..........................309
Endnotes .................................. 317
Index
..................................... 347
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Contents
Preface
XIII
Chapter
1
Digital
Explosion
Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake?
.1
The Explosion of Bits, and Everything Else
. 2
The Koans of Bits
.4
Good and 111, Promise and Peril
.13
Chapter
2
Naked in the Sunlight
Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned
.19
1984
Is Here, and We Like It
.19
Footprints and Fingerprints
.22
Why We Lost Our Privacy, or Gave It Away
.36
Little Brother Is Watching
.42
Big Brother, Abroad and in the U.S.
.48
Technology Change and Lifestyle Change
.55
Beyond Privacy
.61
Chapter
3
Ghosts in the Machine
Secrets and Surprises of Electronic Documents
.73
What You See Is Not What the Computer Knows
_73
Representation, Reality, and Illusion
.80
Hiding Information in Images
.94
The Scary Secrets of Old Disks
.99
X BLOWN TO BITS
Chapter
4
Needles in the Haystack
Google and Other Brokers in the Bits Bazaar
.-----109
Found After Seventy Years
.109
The Library and the Bazaar
.110
The Fall of Hierarchy
.117
It Matters How It Works
.120
Who Pays, and for What?
.138
Search Is Power
.145
You Searched for WHAT? Tracking Searches
.156
Regulating or Replacing the Brokers
.158
Chapter
5
Secret Bits
How Codes Became Unbreakable
.161
Encryption in the Hands of Terrorists, and
Everyone Else
.161
Historical Cryptography
.165
Lessons for the Internet Age
.174
Secrecy Changes Forever
.178
Cryptography for Everyone
.187
Cryptography Unsettled
.191
Chapter
6
Balance Toppled
Who Owns the Bits?
.195
Automated Crimes-Automated, Justice
.195
NET Act Makes Sharing a Crime
.199
The Peer-to-Peer Upheaval
.201
Sharing Goes Decentralized
.204
Authorized Use Only
.209
Forbidden Technology
.213
Copyright Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
.219
The Limits of Property
.225
Chapter
7
You Can't Say That on the Internet
Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression
.229
Do You Know Where Your Child Is on the
Web Tonight?
.229
CONTENTS
XI
Metaphors for Something Unlike Anything Else
. 231
Publisher or Distributor?
. '.234
Neither Liberty nor Security
.235
The Nastiest Place on Earth
.237
The Most Participatory Form of Mass Speech
.239
Protecting Good Samaritans-and a Few Bad Ones
. 242
Laws of Unintended Consequences
.245
Can the Internet Be Like a Magazine Store?
.247
Let Your Fingers Do the Stalking
.249
Like an Annoying Telephone Call?
.251
Digital Protection, Digital Censorship-and Self-
Censorship
.253
Chapter
8
Bits in the Air
Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and
Free Speech
.259
Censoring the President
.259
How Broadcasting Became Regulated
.260
The Path to Spectrum Deregulation
.273
What Does the Future Hold for Radio?
.288
Conclusion
After the Explosion
.295
Bits Lighting Up the World
.295
A Few Bits in Conclusion
.299
Appendix
The Internet as System and Spirit
.301
The Internet as a Communication System
.301
The Internet Spirit
.309
Endnotes . 317
Index
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