World Without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing by Richard Hunter (Wiley, $27.95, 304 pages, ISBN 0471218162) delivers a first-rate explanation of the impact of technology on the public, government, business and communities. Hunter, who is vice president and director of security research for GartnerG2, a division of the world’s largest technology research firm, writes expertly and urgently about the panoply of internet-related problems each of these diverse groups will face in the years ahead. “There’s way too much information about everything out there now, and it’s going to get a lot worse,” Hunter argues. Because technologies arrive at different times, their impacts are cumulative. We don’t see the true effects of a technology’s use until long after that technology has invaded our everyday world. Looking forward, Hunter describes a world in which loss of privacy, technological terrorism and the heist of artistic rights are a foregone conclusion. This is an important book which sheds thought-provoking light on the slippery slope we are descending when it comes to Internet technology.
Valiant Women is a vital and engrossing attempt to correct the record and rightfully celebrate the achievements of female veterans of World War II.
