The Wires of War Technology and the Global Struggle for Power [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B08XB28N6F | 2021 | 11 hours and 32 minutes |MP3|M4B | 317 MB
From the former news policy lead at Google, an urgent and groundbreaking account of the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the autocracies of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy. From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google's global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a quickly escalating two-front technology cold war between democracy and autocracy. On the front-end, we're fighting to control the software - applications, news information, social media platforms, and more - of what we see on the screens of our computers, tablets, and phones, a clash which started out primarily with Russia but now increasingly includes China and Iran. Even more ominously, we're also engaged in a hidden back-end battle - largely with China - to control the internet's hardware, which includes devices like cellular phones, satellites, fiber-optic cables, and 5G networks.