The first section of the book introduces communication system concepts and terminology. The second section reviews the history of the Internet and its incredible growth.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading.
The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, ...
Our ability to meld with all manner of tools is one of the qualities that most distinguishes us as a species. ... The evolution of our extraordinary mental capacity to blur the boundary between the 208 THE SHALLOWS.
Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today. The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet.
In The Internet Imaginaire, sociologist Patrice Flichy examines the collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet—the social imagination that envisioned a technological utopia in the birth of a new technology.
Daniel Collins, a Munger partner who has argued dozens of cases in the Ninth Circuit, led the Internet Brands team.31 Collins petitioned the Ninth Circuit to rehear the case. He had two main arguments. First, he claimed that the panel ...
Imagining the Internet zeroes in on predictions about the Internet's future and revisits past predictions—and how they turned out.
... The Movers and the Shirkers : Representatives and Ideologues in the Senate ( University of Michigan Press , 1999 ) , and over fifty articles . Uslaner's edited books include Social Capital and Participation in Everyday Life and Social ...
In the essays collected in this book, written mostly between the mid-2000s and the late 2010s, Tiziana Terranova bears witness to this monstrous transformation.