Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

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book about digital technology non-fiction book

"Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion" is a non-fiction book that explores how the digital revolution transforms privacy, security, freedom, and everyday life in the information age.

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Label	Occurrences
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion canonical	2
Blown to Bits	1
Blown to Bits, 2nd edition	1

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Target entity: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
Context triple: [Hal Abelson, notableWork, Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion]

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B. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
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C. Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
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D. The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
E. The Future of Ideas
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F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
Target entity description: "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion" is a non-fiction book that explores how the digital revolution transforms privacy, security, freedom, and everyday life in the information age.

A. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
B. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
"Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
C. Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
"Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives" is a nonfiction book by Randi Zuckerberg that explores the impact of digital technology and social media on modern life and offers guidance on achieving a healthier tech-life balance.
D. The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
E. The Future of Ideas
The Future of Ideas is a book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that examines how excessive intellectual property regulation threatens innovation, creativity, and the openness of the digital commons.
F. None of above. chosen

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book about digital technology ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ
author	Hal Abelson ⓘ Harry Lewis ⓘ Ken Ledeen ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
explores	how digital information is created, stored, and analyzed ⓘ how digital technology affects personal freedom ⓘ how digital technology affects privacy ⓘ how digital technology affects public policy ⓘ risks and benefits of the digital explosion ⓘ
genre	computer science ⓘ information policy ⓘ technology ⓘ
hasEdition	Blown to Bits, 2nd edition ⓘ linked to: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
hasTopic	censorship ⓘ data retention ⓘ digital footprints ⓘ encryption ⓘ identity and anonymity online ⓘ intellectual property ⓘ search engines ⓘ
hasWebsite	https://www.bitsbook.com/ ⓘ
influenced	public discussions of digital privacy and policy ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
license	freely available online ⓘ
mainSubject	civil liberties ⓘ data mining ⓘ digital data ⓘ digital revolution ⓘ freedom of expression ⓘ information age ⓘ internet ⓘ privacy ⓘ security ⓘ social implications of computing ⓘ surveillance ⓘ
mediaType	e-book ⓘ print ⓘ
notableFor	accessible explanation of technical issues for non-specialists ⓘ
publicationYear	2008 ⓘ
publisher	Addison-Wesley ⓘ Pearson Education ⓘ linked to: Pearson
targetAudience	general audience ⓘ policy makers ⓘ students ⓘ

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Hal Abelson → notableWork → Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion ⓘ

Hal Abelson → coAuthorOf → Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion ⓘ

Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion → hasEdition → Blown to Bits, 2nd edition ⓘ

linked to: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

Harry Lewis → notableWork → Blown to Bits ⓘ