New York: OR Books, 2012. — 192 p. — ISBN: 9781939293008, 1939293006. Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since its inception in the 1980s. Now, in what is sure...
New York: OR Books, 2012. — 192 p. — ISBN: 9781939293008, 1939293006. Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since its inception in the 1980s. Now, in what is sure...
Dutton, 2012. — 384 p. — ISBN: 9780525953203. At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the world's institutional secrets, by Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg who has traced their shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond. WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of...
Hyperion, 2008. — 246 p. - How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of allhuman knowledge. That’s what we’re doing. —Jimmy Wales In August 2005, at a modest youth hostel in Frankfurt, Germany, hundreds ofwriters, students, computer hackers, and ordinary Internet...
Wiley, 2022. — 401 p. In Blockchain and Web3: Building the Cryptocurrency, Privacy, and Security Foundations of the Metaverse, two tech and finance experts deliver a comprehensive and accessible guide to the present and future of blockchain technology and how it will form the foundation of a new, better internet. To support a concept as bold as the Metaverse, we need several...
Amazon Digital Services LLC, c.a.u.b., 2016. — 41 p. — ASIN: B01AHZU5ES In our increasingly divided world, the wealthiest one percent live in a world of their own. For the time being, they still need the lower classes - to build their houses, grow their food, and buy the products made by the machines they own. But as automation progresses - as we invent ever more versatile...
Amazon Digital Services LLC, c.a.u.b., 2016. — 40 p. — ASIN: B01AHZU5ES In our increasingly divided world, the wealthiest one percent live in a world of their own. For the time being, they still need the lower classes - to build their houses, grow their food, and buy the products made by the machines they own. But as automation progresses - as we invent ever more versatile...
Amazon Digital Services LLC, c.a.u.b., 2016. — 48 p. — ASIN: B01AHZU5ES In our increasingly divided world, the wealthiest one percent live in a world of their own. For the time being, they still need the lower classes - to build their houses, grow their food, and buy the products made by the machines they own. But as automation progresses - as we invent ever more versatile...
4th Ed. — Stripe Press, 2018. — 794 p. — ISBN: 978-1-7322651-1-0. Behind every great revolution is a vision and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. He did not design the first personal computers or write the software that ran on them, nor was he involved in the legendary early companies that brought them to...
Viking, 2015. — 296 p. — ISBN: 978-0-525-42661-5. What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention...
Viking, 2015. — 296 p. — ISBN: 978-0-525-42661-5 What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention...
Yale University Press, 2008 (online version). 342 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-15124-4. This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity — and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of...
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