title: Data Dynamite: how liberating information will transform our world
author: W. David Stephenson
description: W. David Stephenson has an international reputation as a Gov./Enterprise 2-3.0 strategist and theorist. He particularly focuses on organizational data transformation strategies and homeland security and disaster management. His networked homeland security strategy capitalizes on the combination of advanced mobile devices and social network apps to make the public full partners in preparation and response. Stephenson created app suites putting information necessary to prepare for and/or respond to disasters in easy-to-use form for smartphones. Stephenson is a frequent speaker on innovation at e-government, Web 2-3.0, and homeland security conferences worldwide. His expertise also includes organizational transformation through Web 2-3.0, corporate issue management, and new economic and environmental visions. His articles on data liberation, governmental transparency, homeland security, crisis management, new economic paradigms, and advanced technology have appeared in publications and online. Before entering the Web 2.0 field, Stephenson provided award-winning crisis management, community relations, and public relations services plus Web strategies in the environmental, energy & health care fields. He drafted and won passage of the Massachusetts law requiring labeling of plastic packaging to encourage its recycling. Stephenson began his career as an associate producer and writer of award-winning documentaries at WCVB-TV. He was speechwriter, assistant press secretary and press secretary to former Mass. Governor Michael Dukakis. He earned a B.A. from Haverford College and a M.A. from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, where he was a University Fellow.
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  # Too Smart
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Too Smart
  
  
  # How Digital Capitalism Is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking
  Over the World
  
  
  Jathan Sadowski
  
  
  The MIT Press
  
  
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
  
  
  London, England
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  © 2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any
  electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or
  information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the
  publisher.
  
  
  
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Names: Sadowski, Jathan, author.
  
  
  Title: Too smart : how digital capitalism is extracting data, controlling our
  lives, and taking over the world / Jathan Sadowski.
  
  
  Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2020] | Includes
  bibliographical references and index.
  
  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2019025848 | ISBN 9780262538589 (paperback)
  
  
  Subjects: LCSH: Technological