Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Library Systems BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Factory and trade waste
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Environmental Information Resources for State and Local Elected Officials
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Library Systems BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Factory and trade waste
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: Documentation Abstracts
Author: Government Reports Annual Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government reports announcements & index
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Blown to Bits
Author: Harold AbelsonPublisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0137135599
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
'Blown to Bits' is about how the digital explosion is changing everything. The text explains the technology, why it creates so many surprises and why things often don't work the way we expect them to. It is also about things the information explosion is destroying: old assumptions about who is really in control of our lives.
Measures for Progress
Author: Rexmond Canning CochranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A choice of futures
Author: F. EmeryPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468469487
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Exploration of the nature of human communication and the media is a pre requisite to any assessment of the likely future role of communications . . We cannot assume that the nature of these things is transparently obvious to everyone and therefore commonly understood. Three developments in recent decades should adequately warn against such an assumption. First, we had the fiasco of social scientists trying to apply Shannon's mathematical theory of information as if it were a theory of human communication. 'In Shannon's use of information we cannot speak of how much information a person has only how much a message has. ' (Ackoff and Emery, 1972, p. 145). They would not have wandered into that blind alley if they had stopped to think about the nature of human communication. Second was the belated but wholehearted acceptance of the Heider theory of balance and its subse quent wane. Its wane had nothing to do with its inherent merits. It waned because it could not survive on the Procrustean bed of the psychologists' theory of choice. It did not occur to the psychologists to question their as sumptions about how people made the choices that lead to purposeful com munication (Ackoff and Emery, 1972, p. 58). The last example has been the bitter and unended furore about McLuhan. This time the psychologists and sociologists haye been strangely quiet but we can be sure this does not imply acquiescence in McLuhan's views.
Senate Joint Resolutions
Author: Ohio. General Assembly. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Harmful Non-indigenous Species in the United States
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Author: Bruce SchneierPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244822
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
“Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you’re thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we’re offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches. Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we’ve gained? In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He brings his bestseller up-to-date with a new preface covering the latest developments, and then shows us exactly what we can do to reform government surveillance programs, shake up surveillance-based business models, and protect our individual privacy. You'll never look at your phone, your computer, your credit cards, or even your car in the same way again.