title: Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
author: Thomas Rid
description: [E]very chapter opens up as smoothly as an automated glass door. . . . [A] thoughtful, enlightening book. . . a melange of history, media studies, political science, military engineering, and, yes, etymology. . . . In <em>Rise of the Machines</em>, Rid has created a meticulous yet startling alternate history of computation.<br /> - <strong>Bruce Sterling, <em>New Scientist</em></strong><br /><br />Rids fascinating survey of the oscillating hopes and fears expressed by the cybernetic mythos offers an implicit lesson.<br /> - <strong>Michael Saler, <em>Wall Street Journal</em></strong><br /><br />A common theme connects war machines, computer networks, social media, ubiquitous surveillance, and virtual reality. For fifty years or more the same people and the same ideas weave through these innovations united by the term cyber, as in cyberspace and cybernetics. Read this amazing history and youll go: Aha!<br /> - <strong>Kevin Kelly, founder of <em>Wired</em> magazine, author of <em>What Technology Wants</em> and <em>The Inevitable</em></strong><br /><br />Rid, a professor in security studies at Kings College London, is a fine chronicler of the debate, deftly recounting the hope, hype, and fears that have accompanied our thinking on automation. . . . Fascinating. . . Dazzling.<br /> - <strong><em>Financial Times</em></strong><br /><br />Rids book offers a useful history as well as a chance to re-examine our current technological crossroads.<br /> - <strong>Zeynep Tufekci, <em>The New York Times Book Review</em></strong><br /><br /><em>Rise of The Machines</em> isn't just an insightful history of cybernetics but also a fascinating journey with the twentieth-century thinkersfrom tech giants and eccentric mathematicians to science fiction writers and counterculture guruswho have shaped how we understand machines and ourselves.<br /> - <strong>P. W. Singer, author of <em>Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know</em> and <em>Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War</em></strong><br /><br />Sometimes the most important things are hiding in plain sight. At least thats what I concluded from <em>Rise of the Machines</em>, Thomas Rids masterful blending of the art of a storyteller, the discipline of an historian, and the sensitivity of a philosopher. <em>Machines</em> unmasks how really disruptive this cyber thing has been and will continue to be to nearly all aspects of human experience. Its more than food for thought. Its a banquet.<br /> - <strong>General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA</strong><br /><br /><em>Rise of the Machines</em> is a fascinating history of cybernetics, and of the visionaries like Norbert Wiener who first imagined the potentialand perilof machines that would begin to replicate the capabilities of the human mind.<br /> - <strong>Martin Ford, author of <em>Rise of the Robots</em></strong><br /><br />Everyone I know should read this book. It will be a classic.<br /> - <strong>Robert Lee, former U.S. Air Force Cyber Warfare Operations officer and SANS instructor</strong>
zlib_text: 1970
  2020
  “Catch me if 
  you can!”
  Future is 
  looking Cloud-y
  ILoveYou!
  OF
  A
  VISUAL
  HISTORY
  CYBERSECURITY
  
  INTRODUCTION    
  1970-1979    
  1980-1989
  1990-1999    
  2000-2009    
  2010-2019    
  2020    
  PREDICTIONS    
  OPTIV INSIGHTS    
  01 - 02
  03 - 10
      11 - 20
  21 - 30
  31 - 46
  47 - 74
  75 - 84
  85 - 98
  99 - 102
  
  OF
  A
  VISUAL
  HISTORY
  CYBERSECURITY
  From the invention of ARPAnet in 1968, to the rise of 
  personal computing in the 1980’s and telecommuting in the 
  21st century, this book examines the technological history 
  that brought us here today. Cybercrime has evolved at a 
  breakneck pace alongside the digital advancements of the 
  past five decades, and cybersecurity and cyber professionals 
  have been forced to adapt to a market of nonstop growth. 
  We hope this book provides a compelling visual snapshot of 
  the history that led the cyber industry to where it is, along 
  with our bold predictions for the future. To start, lets take a 
  trip back to 1970... 
  1
  A Visual History of Cybersecurity
  