Abelson H. Blown to Bits. Your Life, Liberty,...Digital...2008

Textbook in PDF format

Preface
Digital Explosion: Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake?
Naked in the Sunlight: Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned
Ghosts in the Machine: Secrets and Surprises of Electronic Documents
Needles in the Haystack: Google and Other Brokers in the Bits Bazaar
Secret Bits: How Codes Became Unbreakable
Balance Toppled: Who Owns the Bits?
You Can’t Say That on the Internet: Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression
Bits in the Air: Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and Free Speech
Comclusion: After the Explosion
Appendix: The Internet as System and Spirit
Endnotes
Index