朱利安·阿桑奇 Julian Assange，澳大利亚记者，维基解密创始人和主编，人称“黑客罗宾汉”。 2006年创办泄密网站维基解密，因公布美军装备数据库、关塔那摩监狱手册、机构和企业腐败报告、阿富汗战争日志、伊拉克战争日志、“电报门”等机密文件名噪天下。2010年 ，登上“《时代》读者心中的年度人物”投票榜首位，另获萨姆·亚当斯“情报界正直奖”。2011年5月，获颁悉尼和平奖，同年被提名诺贝尔和平奖。2013年5月，与维基解密一起被授予“人民选择奖”。2012年8月起进入位于伦敦的厄瓜多尔驻英大使馆政治避难至今。 他是密码朋克邮件列表的最初贡献者之一，也是众多遵循密码朋克哲学的软件项目的创建。

Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since its inception in the 1980s. Now, in what is sure to be a wave-making new book, Assange brings together a small group o...(展开全部)

法里德•扎卡里亚 Fareed Zakaria 哈佛大学政治学博士，曾入选世界百名最具影响力的公共知识分子。他师从国际政治学大师亨廷顿，先后担任《外交事务》杂志主编，《新闻周刊》国际版主编，《时代周刊》资深特约编辑，CNN人气时评节目“法里德GPS”主持人。美国前国务卿赖斯称赞他“熟知世界上的每一个角落”，他的著作也是奥巴马总统的随身读物

A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present and examines how the balance of power has shifted between the individual and the state in the areas of censorship, copyright infringement, intellectual freedom, and terrorism and warfare. Johnny Ryan explains how the Internet has revolutionized polit...(展开全部)

Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a tran...(展开全部)

This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and T...(展开全部)

Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there's a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives, often of dubious r...(展开全部)

This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and T...(展开全部)

Big Tech’s 21st century dominance over the Internet is being challenged, creating a new frontier of opportunity for those familiar with the territory. Today’s technology headlines are filled with terms such as bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and Web3, while separately making frequent mention of Big Tech’s censorship, antitrust, and microtargeting. At the middle ground between these to...(展开全部)

Today we judge the value of every idea, institution and individual by one test: is it popular? Or, more practically, do the majority of those polled like it? This transformation has affected not just politics, but also law, business, culture and even religion. Every institution and profession in society must democratize or die. Democracy has gone from being a form of government...(展开全部)