Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: From Alert to a Promise to the Reader
Data
Chapter 1 Common Carriers: From Telegraphs to Internet Kill Switches
Chapter 2 Encryption: From Zimmerman to the Monetized Self
Chapter 3 Massive Scale Computing: From Depth Bombs to Deep Learning
Chapter 4 The Internet: From Hydrogen Bombs to 5G
Chapter 5 The World Wide Web: From CERN to Facial Recognition
Chapter 6 Dataism: From Reducing Noise to Reducing People
Data Waypoint: The Span of the Knowledge Infrastructure
Media
Chapter 7 Propaganda: From Influencing Minds to Manipulating Brains
Chapter 8 Memory Organizations: From Weaponized Librarianship to a Digital Dark Age
From Collecting Books to Collecting Intelligence
Chapter 9 Media Consolidation: From Steamboat Willie to Disney +
Chapter 10 Trust: From Walter Cronkite to Saul Alinsky
Media Waypoint: The Weaponized Knowledge Infrastructure
Society
Chapter 11 Certainty: From Clockwork to Complexity
Chapter 12 Pandemic: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19
Chapter 13 People: From Empty Campuses to Open Arms
Chapter 14 Technology: From Zoom Bombs to the Shin Bet
Chapter 15 Sources: From Swans in Venice to Floods in New Orleans
Chapter 16 Policy: From a Commodity to a Public Good
Chapter 17 A Choice: From Chemical Warfare to Healing the World
Society Waypoint: From Chemical Warfare to Healing the World
Excursus: On the Joys of Writing and How to Check My Facts
About the Author