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Chapters 1 and 2 KP - chapter 1 and 2
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(CHAPTER 1
Digital Explosion
Why Is It Happening, and
What Is at Stake?
On September 19, 2007, while driving alone near Seattle on her way to work ...
This book is your guide to this new world.)
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(The Explosion of Bits, and Everything Else ...
The forces shaping your future are digital, and you need to understand them.)
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(The Koans of Bits ...
Claude Shannon (196-2001) ...
These themes will echo through our tales of the digital explosion.)
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(Koan 1: It’s All Just Bits ...
EXCLUSIVE AND RIVALROUS ...
Yet no sensible engineering distinction can be drawn between text messages, phone calls, and any other
bits traveling through the digital airwaves.)
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(Koan 2: Perfection is Normal ...
Once I release them, everybody has them. And if I give you my bits, I don’t have any fewer.)
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(Koan 3: There Is Want in the Midst of Plenty ...
If it can’t be found—and found quickly—it’s just as though it doesn’t exist at all)
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(Koan 4: Processing Is Power ...
Moore's Law ...
The power comes not just from the bits, but from being able to do things with the bits. )
Chapter 3 APCS A - Ghosts in the Machine Chapter 3
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(CHAPTER 3
Ghosts in the Machine
Secrets and Surprises of Electronic
Documents ...
A blind reader would find a scanned version of the same document useless. )
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(Tracking Changes—and Forgetting That They Are Remembered ...
In particular, when the change history
was revealed, turned out that until
exactly 11:10 a.m.
on February 18, 2004, SCO had instead
planned to sue a different company,
Bank of America, in federal rather than
state court, for copyright
infringement rather than breach of contract)
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Chap 4 Independent Study
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(CHAPTER 4
Needles in the Haystack
Google and Other Brokers in the
Bits Bazaar
Found After Seventy Years ...
Businesses and governments use them to distort our picture of reality. )
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(The Library and the Bazaar ...
By searching, we can all be armchair bits detectives,
finding surprises in the book next to
the one we were pulling off the digital bookshelf,
and sniffing out curious information fragments cast far
and wide by the digital explosion.)
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Chap 5 Cyber / Cyber Capstone
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Chap 6 Computer Science 2
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Chap 7 Computer Science 3
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Chap 8 Practicum
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