Preface   xvii
Chapter 1Â Digital Explosion
Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake?   1
The Explosion of Bits, and Everything Else   4
The Koans of Bits   7
Good and Ill, Promise and Peril   17
Endnotes   19
Chapter 2Â Naked in the Sunlight
Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned   21
1984 Is Here, and We Like It   21
Location, Location, Location   27
Big Brother, Abroad and in the United States   32
The Internet of Things   42
Endnotes   48
Chapter 3Â Who Owns Your Privacy?
The Commercialization of Personal Data   51
What Kind of Vegetable Are You?   51
Footprints and Fingerprints   57
Fair Information Practice Principles   64
Always On   70
Endnotes   71
Chapter 4Â Gatekeepers
Who's in Charge Here?   75
Who Controls the Flow of Bits?   75
The Open Internet?   76
Connecting the Dots: Designed for Sharing and Survival   79
The Internet Has No Gatekeepers?   85
Links Gatekeepers: Getting Connected   86
Search Gatekeepers: If You Can't Find It, Does It Exist?   94
Social Gatekeepers: Known by the Company You Keep   104
Endnotes   112
Chapter 5Â Secret Bits
How Codes Became Unbreakable   117
Going Dark   117
Historical Cryptography   122
Lessons for the Internet Age   131
Secrecy Changes Forever   135
Cryptography Unsettled   147
Endnotes   148
Chapter 6Â Balance Toppled
Who Owns the Bits?   153
Stealing Music   153
Automated Crimes, Automated Justice   155
The Peer-to-Peer Upheaval   160
No Commercial Skipping   167
Authorized Use Only   168
Forbidden Technology   172
Copyright Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance   177
The Limits of Property   183
Endnotes   187
Chapter 7Â You Can't Say That on the Internet
Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression   193
Child Sex Trafficking Goes Digital   193
Publisher or Distributor?   198
Protecting Good Samaritans—and a Few Bad Ones   205
Digital Protection, Digital Censorship, and Self-Censorship   215
What About Social Media?   219
Takedowns   221
Endnotes   222
Chapter 8Â Bits in the Air
Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and Free Speech   227
Censoring the Candidate   227
How Broadcasting Became Regulated   228
The Path to Spectrum Deregulation   241
The Most Beautiful Inventor in the World   245
What Does the Future Hold for Radio?   255
Endnotes   261
Chapter 9Â The Next Frontier
AI and the Bits World of the Future   265
Thrown Under a Jaywalking Bus   266
What's Intelligent About Artificial Intelligence?   267
Machine Learning: I'll Figure It Out   268
Algorithmic Decisions: I Thought Only People Could Do That   273
What's Next   277
Bits Lighting Up the World   282
A Few Bits in Conclusion   287
Endnotes   288
Index   293
