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When your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives--and the broader scheme of human culture--can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now. In Tubes, journalist...
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Imagine a world where ubiquitous connectivity joins all global citizens to the people, products and services they need - anytime, anyplace and anywhere. This vision of the not-too-distant future is presented in a groundbreaking book titled, Anywhere: how global connectivity is revolutionizing the way we do business, by author Emily Nagle Green. Ms. Green is President and CEO of Yankee Group, a Boston Massachusetts based technology research and consulting...
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The United States is more vulnerable than ever to an EMP attack that could shut down the country overnight, resulting in tens of millions of deaths and a 19th-century lifestyle for Americans for the foreseeable future, says A Nation Forsaken, written by a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Even worse, the threat doesn't just come from terrorists, but from unpreventable solar activity -- and a new peak...
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Describes how "phone phreaks" learned how to make illicit but technologically innovative free phone calls and shared the technique, and places the process in the development of telecommunications and the behavior of the telephone monopoly.
Before smartphones, before the Internet and before the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone...
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