Forged in War

R. David Lankes

doi:10.5771/9781538148969

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-4895-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-4896-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 278
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction: From Alert to a Promise to the Reader No access
1. 1. Common Carriers: From Telegraphs to Internet Kill Switches No access
2. 2. Encryption: From Zimmermann to the Monetized Self No access
3. 3. Massive-Scale Computing: From Depth Bombs to Deep Learning No access
4. 4. The Internet: From Hydrogen Bombs to 5G No access
5. 5. The World Wide Web: From CERN to Facial Recognition No access
6. 6. Dataism: From Reducing Noise to Reducing People No access
7. Data Waypoint: The Span of the Knowledge Infrastructure No access
1. 7. Propaganda: From Influencing Minds to Manipulating Brains No access
2. 8. Memory Organizations: From Weaponized Librarianship to a Digital Dark Age No access
3. 9. Media Consolidation: From Steamboat Willie to Disney+ No access
4. 10. Trust: From Walter Cronkite to Saul Alinsky No access
5. Media Waypoint: The Weaponized Knowledge Infrastructure No access
1. 11. Certainty: From Clockwork to Complexity No access
2. 12. Pandemic: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19 No access
3. 13. People: From Empty Campuses to Open Arms No access
4. 14. Technology: From Zoom Bombs to the Shin Bet No access
5. 15. Sources: From Swans in Venice to Floods in New Orleans No access
6. 16. Policy: From a Commodity to a Public Good No access
7. Society Waypoint: From Chemical Warfare to Healing the World No access
Excursus: On the Joys of Writing and How to Check My Facts No access Pages 257 - 260
Index No access Pages 261 - 276
About the Author No access Pages 277 - 278