About the book
Brian W. Kernighan describes the workings of computer hardware, software, networks and larger systems, and the risks they create for privacy and security. He covers how computers are constructed and how they carry out computation, what programming is and why it is hard, and how the internet and the web operate. He stresses that computers are everywhere, visible in phones and laptops and hidden in cars, power grids and medical equipment, gathering personal data that governments, companies, advertisers and criminals can use. Basic ideas from computer science and the limits of computers are included. Color illustrations, source notes and a glossary support a general audience with no technical background.
Eric Schmidt praised it as the clearest and simplest account of the digital world everyone now relies on, and said every person should read it.
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Eric Schmidt (CEO/Google)
This is the clearest and simplest explanation of the world we now all depend on--how it works and why it does what it does―from one of our best-known inventors. Everyone on Earth needs to read it.
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