Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

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Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

2018-02-20 Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

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He has been published in Wired Magazine, TheNation, Slate, Penthouse, The New York Observer, Playboy, Not Safe For Work Corp, Alternet, and many others. . He has also appeared on network television, including MSNBC, and has had his work profiled by the New York Observer, Vanity Fair, and The Verge, among others. Yasha Levine

He has also appeared on network television, including MSNBC, and has had his work profiled by the New York Observer, Vanity Fair, and The Verge, among others. He has been published in Wired Magazine, TheNation, Slate, Penthouse, The New York Observer, Playboy, Not Safe For Work Corp, Alternet, and many others. . About the AuthorYasha Levine is an investigative journalist for Pando Daily, a San Francisco-based news magazine focused on covering the politics and power of big tech

Despite the emergence of story after story about politically charged email hacks, corporate-security breaches, and secret drone strikes, we still think of the perpetrators as bad actors. The military and the tech industry are effectively inseparable: a military-digital complex.This book's tight storytelling and provocative arguments will make you see the news in a new light.. Yet as Yasha Levine shows in this bracing book, the truth is simpler. Levine traces this history, starting with the visionary scientist William Godel, who realized that the key to winning the war in Vietnam was not outgunning the enemy but using new technology to understand and anticipate their movements. As the book spins forward in time, Levine shows that many of the tech-indus