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Internet Forensics
by Robert JonesBecause it's so large and unregulated, the Internet is a fertile breeding ground for all kinds of scams and schemes. Usually it's your credit card number they're after, and they won't stop there. Not just mere annoyances, these scams are real crimes, with real victims. Now, thanks to Internet Forensics from O'Reilly, there's something you can do about it. This practical guide to defending against Internet fraud gives you the skills you need to uncover the origins of the spammers, con artists, and identity thieves that plague the Internet. Targeted primarily at the developer community, Internet Forensics shows you how to extract the information that lies hidden in every email message, web page, and web server on the Internet. It describes the lengths the bad guys will go to cover their tracks, and offers tricks that you can use to see through their disguises. You'll also gain an understanding for how the Internet functions, and how spammers use these protocols to their devious advantage. The book is organized around the core technologies of the Internet-email, web sites, servers, and browsers. Chapters describe how these are used and abused and show you how information hidden in each of them can be revealed. Short examples illustrate all the major techniques that are discussed. The ethical and legal issues that arise in the uncovering of Internet abuse are also addressed. Not surprisingly, the audience for Internet Forensics is boundless. For developers, it's a serious foray into the world of Internet security; for weekend surfers fed up with spam, it's an entertaining and fun guide that lets them play amateur detective from the safe confines of their home or office.
Internet Freedom Software and Illicit Activity: Supporting Human Rights Without Enabling Criminals
by Sasha Romanosky Martin C. Libicki Zev Winkelman Olesya TkachevaThis report examines the portfolio of tools funded by the State Department s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor that help support Internet freedom and assesses the impact of these tools in promoting U. S. interests (such as freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and the free flow of information) without enabling criminal activity. "
Internet für Senioren für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Sandra WeberSie wollen mit Ihren Enkeln per Videochat in Kontakt bleiben? Oder auch die Möglichkeit des Onlineversands nutzen? Dann zeigt Ihnen dieses Buch wie Sie in den Weiten des Internet navigieren und welche Dienste Sie nutzen können. Von der Suche nach Informationen über Nachrichtenvermittlung bis zu Onlinebanking. Das Internet kann das Leben erleichtern. Wenn man weiß wie es geht. Mit diesem Buch erhalten Sie leicht verständliche Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen zur Nutzung des Internet.
The Internet: Getting Connected (Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System 2 #Level X, Nonfiction)
by George CapaccioThe Internet: Getting Connected by George Capaccio
Internet Governance: The NETmundial Roadmap
by Patrick Ryan Joana Varon Ferraz Matthew Shears Ronaldo Lemos Vint Cerf Emma Llansó William J. Drake Larry Gross Max Senges Shawn Powers Jeremy Malcolm Lea Kaspar Nnenna Nwakanma Anriette Esterhuysen Arlene Luck Avri Doria Samantha Dickinson Wolfgang Kleinwächter Richard Whitt Markus Kummer James Losey Monroe E. Price Marilia Maciel"Following up on the promise of the NETMundial meeting, this timely and useful book explores the challenges of implementing its roadmap for the future of Internet governance." -- Milton L. Mueller, Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies, USAInternet Governance: The NETmundial Roadmap explores key implications of the Global Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance held on April 23-24, 2014 in São Paulo, Brazil. At the meeting, government, business, civil society, Internet technical community and academic participants from around the world agreed to a "NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement" that included a "Roadmap for the Future Evolution of Internet Governance." This volume brings together leading practitioners and scholars to explore the challenges of implementing the Roadmap's section on institutional improvements, and was prepared for release and debate at September 2014 global Internet Governance Forum in Istanbul. The 16 chapters are grouped into six sections: Overviews; Strengthening the Internet Governance Forum; Filling the Gaps; Improving ICANN; Broader Analytical Perspectives; and Moving Forward. The book was produced as a part of the Internet Policy Observatory, a program at the Center for Global Communication Studies, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. It is edited by William J. Drake of the University of Zurich and Monroe Price of the Annenberg School for Communication.
Internet Governance and the Global South
by Abu BhuiyanA welcome addition to Palgrave's Global Media Policy and Business series, Internet Governance and the Global South documents the role of the global south in Internet policymaking and challenges the globalization theories that declared the death of the state in global decision-making. Abu Bhuiyan argues that the global Internet politics is primarily a conflict between the states - the United States of America and the states of the global south - because the former controls Internet policymaking. The states of the global south have been both oppositional and acquiescing to the sponsored policies of the United States on Internet issues such as digital divide, multilingualism, intellectual property rights and cyber security. They do not oppose the neoliberal underpinnings of the policies promoted by the United States, but ask for an international framework to govern the Internet so that they can work as equal partners in setting norms for the global Internet.
Internet Guide to Cosmetic Surgery for Women
by M Sandra WoodLearn to use the Internet to find important information on cosmetic surgery procedures-and the right surgeon to do it!Hundreds of thousands are considering cosmetic surgery of some sort. The question is where can you go to find out what is right for you? The Internet Guide to Cosmetic Surgery for Women gives you the advantage of finding out everything you want to know about cosmetic surgery-from the comfort and privacy of your own home. This comprehensive resource guides you through the mountains of information on the Internet, providing a thorough listing of Web sites detailing every aspect of plastic and cosmetic surgery for every body part, as well as presenting strategies for finding specific information you are looking for. The Internet Guide to Cosmetic Surgery for Women gives you the tools to find information about a specific procedure, learn the surgery&’s advantages as well as risks-even how to locate the best surgeons for the procedure. The book provides screen shots to illustrate Web sites, information on where to find the latest important statistics and data, and helpful definitions for cosmetic surgery terms.The Internet Guide to Cosmetic Surgery for Women not only lists Internet addresses and basic sites on cosmetic surgery, but also reveals where to find quality information on: the costs of surgery selecting a cosmetic surgeon liposuction calf implants tummy tucks thigh lifts buttock liposculpture buttock augmentation belt lipectomy breast surgeries, including enlargement, lifts, reconstruction, and reduction cheek implants facelifts jaw augmentation laser skin resurfacing lip augmentation nose surgery cellulite treatment Botox injections hair removal hair transplantation scar revision wrinkle treatment chemical peels cosmetic dentistry and much more!The Internet Guide to Cosmetic Surgery for Women is an essential guide for anyone interested in or considering plastic and cosmetic surgery procedures.
Internet Guide to Travel Health
by Elizabeth ConnorDiscover the best Web sites for you and your family&’s well-being while traveling! The Internet Guide to Travel Health is your one-stop resource for when you need authoritative, reliable, and up-to-date information for preventing or dealing with illness and injury while traveling in the United States and abroad. For persons traveling near or far, this useful, easy-to-consult guide identifies dependable Web sites with advice, tips, and accurate facts on health issues that can affect your travel plans. You&’ll save time and effort when researching the planning, preparation, and preventive measures necessary to stay healthy while traveling. In the Internet Guide to Travel Health, you will discover a wealth of information for maintaining your health and safety throughout your trip. This book offers you Web sites to keep you informed on the latest life-threatening situations occurring throughout the world, such as disease outbreaks, epidemics, and natural disasters. With Internet addresses for what health documents to keep with you at all times, how to find doctors and clinics at your destination, and even what to do in case of a death far from home, this informative guide helps you stay organized, even in an emergency. The Internet Guide to Travel Health provides you with reliable information on: elective and compulsory immunizations, vaccinations, and examinations safety concerns with specific modes of travel-automotive, railways, air travel, cruise ships travel recommendations and accommodations for people with disabilities, seniors, children, people with HIV, and pets specific diseases, conditions, and ailments that can affect travel or be encountered while traveling-from air rage and allergies to West Nile Virus and Yellow Fever interactive tools and real-time travel advice-driving distance calculators, air flight arrival/departure delays, and traffic reports In addition to the Web site listings, the Internet Guide to Travel Health provides numerous screen shots of key Internet resources and an understandable glossary of health- and Internet-related terms. With the myriad of health and safety risks associated with traveling both nationally and internationally, this book is essential for vacationers, business travelers, explorers, and health care professionals who want to stay informed and prepared.
Internet Histories
by Niels Brügger, Gerard Goggin, Ian Milligan and Valérie SchaferIn 2017, the new journal Internet Histories was founded. As part of the process of defining a new field, the journal editors approached leading scholars in this dynamic, interdisciplinary area. This book is thus a collection of eighteen short thought-provoking pieces, inviting discussion about Internet histories. They raise and suggest current and future issues in the scholarship, as well as exploring the challenges, opportunities, and tensions that underpin the research terrain. The book explores cultural, political, social, economic, and industrial dynamics, all part of a distinctive historiographical and theoretical approach which underpins this emerging field.The international specialists reflect upon the scholarly scene, laying out the field’s research successes to date, as well as suggest the future possibilities that lie ahead in the field of Internet histories. While the emphasis is on researcher perspectives, interviews with leading luminaries of the Internet’s development are also provided. As histories of the Internet become increasingly important, Internet Histories is a useful roadmap for those contemplating how we can write such works. One cannot write many histories of the 1990s or later without thinking of digital media – and we hope that Internet Histories will be an invaluable resource for such studies. This book was originally published as the first issue of the Internet Histories journal.
Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America (Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America)
by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste Juan PobleteHow online humor influences politics and culture in Latin America This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin American perspective on the role of humor in the Spanish- and Portuguese-language internet, highlighting how the production and circulation of online humor influence the region’s relation to democracy and civil society and the production of meaning in everyday life. Several case studies consider memes, including discussions of political cartoons in Mexico and imagery that portrays the mismanagement of natural disasters in Puerto Rico. Essays on Brazil examine how memes are shared on WhatsApp by Jair Bolsonaro supporters and how the Instagram account Barbie Fascionista offers memes as political commentary. Other case studies consider video content, including the sketches of Argentinian comedian Guillermo Aquino, the short-form material of Chilean vlogger Germán Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column created by journalists in Colombia. Contributors also offer new methodologies for studying the laughable on social media, including a model for analyzing fake Twitter accounts. Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America demonstrates that internet humor can generate novel means of public interaction with the political and cultural spheres and create greater expectations of governmental accountability and democratic participation. This volume shows the importance of paying serious attention to humorous digital content as part of contemporary culture.Contributors: Eva Paulina Bueno | Juan Poblete | Alberto Centeno-Pulido | Damián Fraticelli | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | Viktor Chagas | Paul Alonso | Ulisses Sawczuk da Silva | Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste | Alejandra Nallely Collado Campos | R. Sánchez-Rivera | Mélodine Sommier | Fábio Marques de Souza A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Internet in China
by Gianluigi NegroThis book aims to identify the most important political, socio-economic, and technical determinants of Internet development in China, through a historical approach that combines political economy, cultural, and public studies. Firstly, the book looks at the most important strategies that compelled the Chinese government to invest in the construction of the Internet infrastructure. Secondly, it examines the relationships between the development of the Internet in China and the emergence of a nascent civil society. Finally, attention is given to three different Chinese online platforms in three different historical periods. This three-pronged approach presents a coherent set of analyses and case studies which are committed to the investigation of the complex process of change undergone by Internet development in China.
The Internet in China: Cyberspace and Civil Society (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture)
by Zixue TaiThe Internet in China examines the cultural and political ramifications of the Internet for Chinese society. The rapid growth of the Internet has been enthusiastically embraced by the Chinese government, but the government has also rushed to seize control of the virtual environment. Individuals have responded with impassioned campaigns against official control of information. The emergence of a civil society via cyberspace has had profound effects upon China--for example, in 2003, based on an Internet campaign, the Chinese Supreme People's Court overturned the ruling of a local court for the first time since the Communist Party came to power in 1949.The important question this book asks is not whether the Internet will democratize China, but rather in what ways the Internet is democratizing communication in China. How is the Internet empowering individuals by fostering new types of social spaces and redefining existing social relations?
Internet in the Post-Soviet Area: Technological, Economic and Political Aspects (Societies and Political Orders in Transition)
by Sergey DavydovThis book offers a comparative perspective on the technological, economic, and political aspects of Internet development in the post-Soviet countries. In doing so, international experts analyze similarities and differences in various countries throughout the chapters.The volume consists of two parts. The chapters of the first part examine the post-Soviet area as a whole. The second part includes specific case studies on the development of the Internet, either in individual countries or in groups of countries. Countries analyzed are Estonia, Ukraine, Russia as well as three Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Topics covered in the volume include, but are not limited to measurement, dynamics, and structure of each national Internet audience; the history of the Internet in the post-Soviet countries; development of infrastructure; Internet regulation and institutional aspects; online markets such as telecommunications, online advertising, e-commerce, and digital content; social and cultural aspects; as well as the transformation of the national media systems. This book is a must-read for students, researchers, and scholars of political science and economics, as well as policymakers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of Internet development in the post-Soviet area.
The Internet in the Workplace: How New Technology is Transforming Work
by Patricia Wallace"[P]rovides fascinating insights into how we view our role in society and our work. This book is worth a read." An expansive overview of online behavior--from deception and aggression to altruism and romance--as well as of the elements that make the Internet 'addictive.' This is a well-organized and accessible primer on the impact of the Internet on social and workplace dynamics." Good introduction to the myriad new issues and reconfigured challenges arising from this new technology with respect to telecommuting, e-commerce, electronic communications, personal boundaries, career paths, leadership paradigms, customer relationships, employee rights, security of information and knowledge, continuing education, and preparation for more coming changes
An Internet in Your Head: A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works
by Daniel GrahamWhether we realize it or not, we think of our brains as computers. In neuroscience, the metaphor of the brain as a computer has defined the field for much of the modern era. But as neuroscientists increasingly reevaluate their assumptions about how brains work, we need a new metaphor to help us ask better questions.The computational neuroscientist Daniel Graham offers an innovative paradigm for understanding the brain. He argues that the brain is not like a single computer—it is a communication system, like the internet. Both are networks whose power comes from their flexibility and reliability. The brain and the internet both must route signals throughout their systems, requiring protocols to direct messages from just about any point to any other. But we do not yet understand how the brain manages the dynamic flow of information across its entire network. The internet metaphor can help neuroscience unravel the brain’s routing mechanisms by focusing attention on shared design principles and communication strategies that emerge from parallel challenges. Highlighting similarities between brain connectivity and the architecture of the internet can open new avenues of research and help unlock the brain’s deepest secrets.An Internet in Your Head presents a clear-eyed and engaging tour of brain science as it stands today and where the new paradigm might take it next. It offers anyone with an interest in brains a transformative new way to conceptualize what goes on inside our heads.
Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0
by Microsoft CorporationDeploy and support Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 with tools and technical information straight from the Microsoft IIS product team.
Internet Information Services (IIS) 6 Resource Kit
by Microsoft Iis TeamDeploy and support IIS 6.0, which is included with Microsoft Windows Server 2003, with expertise direct from the Microsoft IIS product team. This official RESOURCE KIT packs 1200+ pages of in-depth deployment, operations, and technical information, including step-by-step instructions for common administrative tasks. Get critical details and guidance on security enhancements, the new IIS 6.0 architecture, migration strategies, performance tuning, logging, and troubleshooting--along with timesaving tools, IIS 6.0 product documentation, and a searchable eBook on CD. You get all the resources you need to help maximize the security, reliability, manageability, and performance of your Web server--while reducing system administration costs. Get in-depth guidance--straight from the Microsoft IIS team on how to: Upgrade or migrate existing IIS solutions to IIS 6.0 Migrate Apache Web sites--migration tool included on CD Deploy Microsoft ASP.NET applications on IIS 6.0 Configure and manage IIS security services Manage the IIS 6.0 metabase using built-in GUI-based and command-line utilities Run IIS 6.0 as a platform for Web applications Streamline programmatic administration with the scripts and tools on CD Apply best practices for improving server availability and scalability, including managing large-scale deployments Optimize IIS performance with effective monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting procedures Resource Kit tools plus Windows Server 2003 evaluation software inside Use IIS 6.0 Resource Kit tools to query log files, manage security features, run stress tests, migrate servers, troubleshoot problems, and more. The CD includes the following tools: Apache to IIS 6.0 Migration Tool CustomAuth IISCertDeploy.vbs IIS Host Helper Services IIS 6.0 Migration Tool IISState Log Parser Metabase Explorer Permissions Verifier RemapUrl SelfSSL TinyGet Web Capacity Analysis Tool WFetchCD also features: 180-day evaluation version of Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition IIS 6.0 Help system Windows Registry Reference Fully searchable eBook of this complete RESOURCE KIT A Note Regarding the CD or DVD The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.
Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
by William R. StanekPortable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers immediate answers for the day-to-day administration of Web servers running Microsoft® Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. Zero in on core IIS support procedures and everyday tasks using quick-reference tables, step-by-step instructions, and lists. You get the focused, streamlined information you need to solve problems and get the job done--whether you're at your desk or in the field! Get fast facts to: Install Web and application server components Learn core techniques for managing IIS Configure Web sites, servers, and virtual directories Customize Web content, including error messages and redirection Manage Web applications, application pools, and Microsoft ASP.NET Configure SMTP, POP3, and advanced messaging options Implement security features--permissions, certificates, SSL Monitor and optimize IIS performance Manage IIS backups and metabase configurations
Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit
by Brett Hill Bernard Cheah Steve Schofield Kurt Meyer Microsoft Iis Team Olga M. Londer Carlos Aguiar Mares Mike VolordarskyGet the definitive reference for deploying, managing, and supporting Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0. This official Microsoft® RESOURCE KIT provides comprehensive information and resources from Microsoft IIS Team experts who know the technology best. IIS, a service within the Windows Server® 2008 operating system, enables users to easily host and manage Web sites, create Web-based business applications, and extend file, print, media, and communication services to the Web. This RESOURCE KIT provides everything you need to know about IIS architecture, migrating servers and applications, capacity planning, performance monitoring, security features, top administration and troubleshooting scenarios, and IIS best practices. You also get an essential toolkit of resources on CD, including scripts, job aids, and a fully searchable eBook. A Note Regarding the CD or DVD The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.
Internet Infrastructure: Networking, Web Services, and Cloud Computing
by Richard Fox Wei HaoInternet Infrastructure: Networking, Web Services, and Cloud Computing provides a comprehensive introduction to networks and the Internet from several perspectives: the underlying media, the protocols, the hardware, the servers, and their uses. The material in the text is divided into concept chapters that are followed up with case study chapters that examine how to install, configure, and secure a server that offers the given service discussed. The book covers in detail the Bind DNS name server, the Apache web server, and the Squid proxy server. It also provides background on those servers by discussing DNS, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS, digital certificates and encryption, web caches, and the variety of protocols that support web caching. Introductory networking content, as well as advanced Internet content, is also included in chapters on networks, LANs and WANs, TCP/IP, TCP/IP tools, cloud computing, and an examination of the Amazon Cloud Service. Online resources include supplementary content that is available via the textbook’s companion website, as well useful resources for faculty and students alike, including: a complete lab manual; power point notes, for installing, configuring, securing and experimenting with many of the servers discussed in the text; power point notes; animation tutorials to illustrate some of the concepts; two appendices; and complete input/output listings for the example Amazon cloud operations covered in the book.
Internet Internals: Vermittlungsschicht, Aufbau und Protokolle
by Peter MandlLernen Sie in diesem Buch alles über Vermittlungsschicht und Aufbau des Internets und die Übertragung von InformationenSie haben sich schon immer gefragt, wie das World Wide Web aufgebaut ist? Sie suchen eine Einführung in die „Internet Internals“? Dieses Buch über die Vermittlungsschicht des Internets gibt Ihnen Antworten. Es führt Sie in die Grundlagen der Übertragung von Daten im Netz ein und vermittelt Ihnen dabei einen Überblick über den Aufbau des Internets. Die große Stärke dieses Buchs über die Vermittlungsschicht des Internets liegt darin, dass es komplexe Sachverhalte wie Protokolle und Algorithmen im Detail beschreibt, dabei jedoch stets verständlich und übersichtlich bleibt.Die Inhalte von „Internet Internals“Autor Peter Mandl gewährt dem Leser einen möglichst tiefen wie breiten Einblick in die Kommunikationsstrukturen des World Wide Webs. Der Fokus des Buch über die Vermittlungsschicht im Internet liegt auf folgenden Themengebieten:• Aufbau des Internts• Internetprotokolle IPv4 und IPv6• Routing und Forwarding• Internet-Kommunikation• Konfigurations- und SteuerprotokolleMit all seiner Expertise ist Mandl dazu in der Lage, komplexe Sachverhalte des Internets einfach und verständlich darzulegen. Auch die zahlreiche Abbildungen helfen dabei, seine Ausführungen leicht nachzuvollziehen. Damit das Gelernte im Gedächtnis bleibt, finden Sie am Ende des Buchs Übungsaufgaben zu jedem Kapitel. Da die Lösungen direkt mitgeliefert werden, können Sie Nicht-Verstandenes noch einmal nachprüfen.
The Internet Is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius
by David ThorneFeaturing all of Thorne's viral success, including "Missing Missy", The Internet Is a Playground culls together every article and e-mail from Thorne's wildly popular website 27bslash6.com, as well as enough new material, available only in these pages, to keep you laughing--and, indeed, crying--until Thorne's next stroke-of-genius prank. Or hilarious hoax. Or well-publicized almost-stint in jail (really).
The Internet Is for Cats: How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives
by Jessica MaddoxLOL cats. Grumpy Cat. Dog-rating Twitter. Pet Instagram accounts. It’s generally understood the internet is for pictures of cute cats (and dogs, and otters, and pandas). But what motivates people to make and share these images, and how do they relate to other online social practices? The Internet is for Cats examines how animal images are employed to create a lighter, more playful mood, uniting users within online spaces that can otherwise easily become fractious and toxic. Placing today’s pet videos, photos, and memes within a longer history of mediated animal images, communication scholar Jessica Maddox also considers the factors that make them unique. She explores the roles that animals play within online economies of cuteness and attention, as well as the ways that animal memes and videos respond to common experiences of life under neoliberalism. Conducting a rich digital ethnography, Maddox combines observations and textual analysis with extensive interviews of the people who create, post and share animal media, including TikTok influencers seeking to make their pets famous, activists tweeting about wildlife conservation, and Redditors upvoting every cute cat photo. The Internet is for Cats will leave you with a new appreciation for the human social practices behind the animal images you encounter online.
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew KeenSince its creation during the Cold War, the Internet, together with the Web, personal computers, tablets and smartphones, has ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. The Digital Revolution has contributed to the world in many positive ways, but we are less aware of the Internet’s deeply negative effects.The Internet Is Not the Answer, by longtime Internet skeptic Andrew Keen, offers a comprehensive look at what the Internet is doing to our lives. The book traces the technological and economic history of the Internet, from its founding in the 1960s through the rise of big data companies to the increasing attempts to monetize almost every human activity. In this sharp, witty narrative, informed by the work of other writers, reporters, and academics, as well as his own research and interviews, Keen shows us the tech world, warts and all.Startling and important, The Internet Is Not the Answer is a big-picture look at what the Internet is doing to our society and an investigation of what we can do to try to make sure the decisions we are making about the reconfiguring of our world do not lead to unpleasant, unforeseen aftershocks.
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
by Justin E. SmithAn original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from the ancient to the modern world—uncovering its surprising origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of radically improving human life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating across vast distances. Yet, despite the internet’s continuing potential, Smith argues, the utopian hopes behind it have finally died today, killed by the harsh realities of social media, the global information economy, and the attention-destroying nature of networked technology.Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Smith shows how the “internet” has been with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating connections between internet user experience, artificial intelligence, the invention of the printing press, communication between trees, and the origins of computing in the machine-driven looms of the silk industry. At the same time, he reveals how the internet’s organic structure and development root it in the natural world in unexpected ways that challenge efforts to draw an easy line between technology and nature.Combining the sweep of intellectual history with the incisiveness of philosophy, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is cuts through our daily digital lives to give a clear-sighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us in the coming decades.