Includes bibliographical references and index

ch. 1 Digital Explosion: Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake? -- The Explosion of Bits, and Everything Else -- The Koans of Bits -- Good and 111, Promise and Peril -- Endnotes -- ch. 2 Naked in the Sunlight: Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned -- 1984 Is Here, and We Like It -- Location, Location, Location -- Big Brother, Abroad and in the United States -- The Internet of Things -- Endnotes -- ch. 3 Who Owns Your Privacy?: The Commercialization of Personal Data -- What Kind of Vegetable Are You? -- Footprints and Fingerprints -- Fair Information Practice Principles -- Always On -- Endnotes -- ch. 4 Gatekeepers: Who's in Charge Here? -- Who Controls the Flow of Bits? -- The Open Internet? -- Connecting the Dots: Designed for Sharing and Survival -- The Internet Has No Gatekeepers? -- Links Gatekeepers: Getting Connected -- Search Gatekeepers: If You Can't Find It, Does It Exist? -- Social Gatekeepers: Known by the Company You Keep -- Endnotes -- ch. 5 Secret Bits: How Codes Became Unbreakable -- Going Dark -- Historical Cryptography -- Lessons for the Internet Age -- Secrecy Changes Forever -- Cryptography Unsettled -- Endnotes -- ch. 6 Balance Toppled: Who Owns the Bits? -- Stealing Music -- Automated Crimes, Automated Justice -- The Peer-to-Peer Upheaval -- No Commercial Skipping -- Authorized Use Only -- Forbidden Technology -- Copyright Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance -- The Limits of Property -- Endnotes -- ch. 7 You Can't Say That on the Internet: Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression -- Child Sex Trafficking Goes Digital -- Publisher or Distributor? -- Protecting Good Samaritans-and a Few Bad Ones -- Digital Protection, Digital Censorship, and Self-Censorship -- What About Social Media? -- Takedowns -- Endnotes -- ch. 8 Bits in the Air: Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and Free Speech -- Censoring the Candidate -- How Broadcasting Became Regulated -- The Path to Spectrum Deregulation -- The Most Beautiful Inventor in the World -- What Does the Future Hold for Radio? -- Endnotes -- ch. 9 The Next Frontier: Al and the Bits World of the Future -- Thrown Under a Jaywalking Bus -- What's Intelligent About Artificial Intelligence? -- Machine Learning: I'll Figure It Out -- Algorithmic Decisions: I Thought Only People Could Do That -- What's Next -- Bits Lighting Up the World -- A Few Bits in Conclusion

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