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020    9781538148952 |q(cloth ; |qpermanent paper)
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041    eng
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050 00 T58.5 |b.L365 2021
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100 1  Lankes, R. David, |d1970- |eauthor.
245 10 Forged in war : |bhow a century of war created today's information society / |cR. David Lankes.
260    Lanham : |bRowman & Littlefield, |c2021.
300    276 p. : |bill. ; |c24 cm.
337    unmediated
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
505    Introduction: From Alert to a Promise to the Reader -- Pt. I. Data. 1. Common Carriers: From Telegraphs to Internet Kill Switches -- 2. Encryption: From Zimmerman to the Monetized Self -- 3. Massive Scale Computing: From Depth Bombs to Deep Learning -- 4. The Internet: From Hydrogen Bombs to 5G -- 5. The World Wide Web: From CERN to Facial Recognition -- 6. Dataism: From Reducing Noise to Reducing People -- Data Waypoint: The Span of the Knowledge Infrastructure -- Pt. II. Media. 7. Propaganda: From Influencing Minds to Manipulating Brains -- 8. Memory Organizations: From Weaponized Librarianship to a Digital Dark Age -- 9. Media Consolidation: From Steamboat Willie to Disney + -- 10. Trust: From Walter Cronkite to Saul Alinsky -- Media Waypoint: The Weaponized Knowledge Infrastructure -- Pt. III. Society. 11. Certainty: From Clockwork to Complexity -- 12. Pandemic: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19 -- 13. People: From Empty Campuses to Open Arms -- 14. Technology: From Zoom Bombs to the Shin Bet -- 15. Sources: From Swans in Venice to Floods in New Orleans -- 16. Policy: From a Commodity to a Public Good -- Society Waypoint:: From Chemical Warfare to Healing the World -- Excursus: On the Joys of Writing and How to Check My Facts.
520    "The tools of our information age-from search engines to data mining to smart appliances-grew directly out of conflicts from World War I to the present day. Explore how today's Information Society reflects a worldview shaped by a century of war"--
650  0 Information technology |xHistory.
650  0 Information society.
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