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La guerra constituye un continuo, un hilo que se extiende a lo largo de toda la historia humana, a la que hoy se incorporó una nueva dimensión: el del ciberespacio. En Nuevos espacios, viejas batallas proponemos que este nuevo escenario, que suele asociarse a lo virtual, posee hondas raíces y efectos tan consolidados como los que traen consigo helicópteros y misiles guiados. De hecho, lo que comprobamos es que el ciberespacio no cambió la guerra,...
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All you need to know about the Internet and what you can do in under 30 minutes to use it more safely and privacy-friendly. Including 30 worksheets and checklists to help you improve your own Internet safety and privacy.
Pop-ups, cookie notices, password rules and data scandals everywhere. Who are those who want to have our data? And what does that even mean?
Learn, why so many data flows are problematic and what you can do in just a few minutes...
3) Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It can Happen Again
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A New York Times bestseller!
Who's really to blame for America's catastrophic financial meltdown and devastating national recession? Contrary to what the "Occupy Movement" might tell you, it's not just greedy Wall Street executives (though they certainly earned their share of scorn). It's not just failed regulation (even though Washington has failed miserably, both Republicans and Democrats, to protect us). As one of America's...
Who's really to blame for America's catastrophic financial meltdown and devastating national recession? Contrary to what the "Occupy Movement" might tell you, it's not just greedy Wall Street executives (though they certainly earned their share of scorn). It's not just failed regulation (even though Washington has failed miserably, both Republicans and Democrats, to protect us). As one of America's...
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In this powerful and urgently needed call to action, national security expert Stephen Flynn offers a startling portrait of the radical shortcomings in America's plan for homeland security. He describes a frightening scenario of what the next major terrorist attack might look like -- revealing the tragic loss of life and economic havoc it would leave in its wake, as well as the seismic political consequences it would have in Washington. Flynn also...
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El autor de esta obra sostiene que el ciberespacio puede considerarse como una nueva dimensión de acción humana para reproducir la guerra interestatal propia de las relaciones internacionales. Para su argumentación propone tres objetivos: primero, analizar la práctica de la guerra, sus elementos perennes y entender su relación con la tecnología, segundo, presentar las cualidades y los elementos que hacen del ciberespacio una nueva dimensión...
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"Winner of the 2010 Goldsmith Book Prize (Academic Book)" "Winner of the 2009 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research, awarded by the Donald McGannon Communications Research Center" Matthew Hindman is assistant professor of political science at Arizona State University.
Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and make the public...
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The Conficker computer "worm" is a potentially devastating computer virus that has baffled experts and infected as many as 12 million computers to date. When the Conficker virus was unleashed in November 2008, cybersecurity experts did not know what to make of it. The worm, exploiting the security flaws in Microsoft Windows, grew at an astonishingly rapid rate, infecting millions of computers around the world within weeks. Once the worm infiltrated...
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"Starting in the early 1960s, there was fear in America about the proliferation of computer database and networking technologies. People worried that these systems were going to be used by both corporations and governments for surveillance and control. Indeed, the dominant cultural view at the time was that computers were tools of repression, not liberation -- and that included the ARPANET, the military research network that would grow into the Internet...
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Breaking the Code: Thriving as Black Individuals in the Era of Artificial Intelligence is an essential guide for navigating the rapidly evolving world of AI and its impact on underrepresented and marginalized communities, particularly Black individuals. This comprehensive book delves into the history of AI, its breakthrough technologies, and its potential to reshape our society, while also highlighting the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas...
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This complete summary of the ideas from C.K. Prahald and Venkat Ramaswamy's book "The Future of Competition" shows how commercial advantage used to be created by manufacturing a better product. Nowadays, value comes from the experiences of customers. In their book, the authors explain the basic principles of co-creation and how businesses can implement them in order to increase the value of consumer products. This summary will teach you how to make...
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Hard-to-explain topics, explained simply. Current events, business analysis, commentary, long-form features, polling, original video, interactive graphics, and more from the nation's leading business commentators. This volume of Bloomberg QuickTake is titled Disruption's Fallout, and focuses on the unintended consequences of innovations in technology. With sections on Economy & Finance; World Affairs; Energy & Environment; and Health & Society.
13) Climate Change
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Hard-to-explain topics, explained simply. Current events, business analysis, commentary, long-form features, polling, original video, interactive graphics, and more from the nation's leading business commentators. This volume of Bloomberg QuickTake is titled Climate Change, and focuses on how climate change is influencing where we live, how we invest, and even what clothes we buy. With sections on Finance & Capital Markets, Trade, Global Governance,...
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This friendly guide is for technology people who work, or want to work, in the public sector. In it, Cyd Harrell outlines the types of projects, partnerships, and people that civic technologists encounter, and the methods they can use to make lasting change. She focuses on principles and sets of questions to help technologists find the right way to do the most good, starting with finding the people already doing the work. Based on her years of government...
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Internet es la actividad más importante en la vida de los adolescentes de todo el mundo, uno de los pocos escenarios que, según su propia percepción, les pertenece. El universo online les permite expresarse, definirse, entender cómo es y cómo funciona la sociedad en la que viven. En este espacio, además, pueden hacerse visibles y presentarse como actores sociales.
¿Los adolescentes valoran Internet como lugar de participación? ¿Les interesa?...
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El Programa Conectar Igualdad (PCI) es abordado desde una diversidad de enfoques que da cuenta de la dimensión de esta política pública cuyo eje fue la inclusión digital, pero también el mejoramiento de los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje o la sustitución de importaciones.
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Esta publicación pretende reforzar la necesidad de definir estrategias para preservar los sistemas propios de los países (especialmente los datos), dada la dificultad de prevenir ataques cibernéticos e identificar sus fuentes. Para delinear posibles estrategias, fueron analizadas diversas medidas implícitas y explícitas adoptadas por el Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence, la OTAN y la UE, sometiéndolas a la evaluación de 58 especialistas...
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A clear-eyed, timely investigation of the threat posed by Artificial Intelligence to individual freedom, social cohesion, and the democratic process-and a radical proposal on how to fight back.
In this sharp, urgent book, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and former resistance fighter Miguel Benasayag warns of the great danger posed by the growing role of big data and algorithms in deciding the contours of individual lives and the direction of the world....
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Entre 1993 y 1996 se produjo una sucesión de hechos que llevaron a Colombia a conectarse a Internet. Aunque hoy eso pueda parecer una noticia de poca monta, en realidad supuso una verdadera revolución en la forma en que se hacen todo tipo de negocios, se tejen las relaciones y funciona la vida diaria de millones de colombianos. Un acontecimiento de tal magnitud debería haber producido cantidades de libros relacionados. Pero, cuando el autor intentó...
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