Forged in war: how a century of war created today's information society

Introduction: From alert to a promise to the reader. Part I: vt Data. Common carriers: from telegraph to internet kill switches ; Encryption: from Zimmerman to the monetized self ; Massive-scale computing: from depth bombs to deep learning ; The internet: from hydrogen bombs to 5G ; The World Wide Web: from CERN to facial recognition ; Dataism: from reducing noise to reducing people ; Data waypoint: the span of knowledge infrastructure

Part II: Media. Propaganda: from influencing minds to manipulating brains ; Memory organizations: from weaponized librarianship to a digital dark age ; Media consolidation: from Steamboat Willie to Disney+ ; Trust: from Walter Cronkite to Saul Alinsky ; Media waypoint: the weaponized knowledge infrastructure

Part III: Society. Certainty: from clockwork to complexity ; Pandemic: from the Spanish Flue to COVID-19 ; People: from empty campuses to open arms ; Technology: from zoom bombs to the shin bet ; Sources: from swans in Venice to floods in New Orleans ; Policy: from a commodity to a public good ; Society waypoint: from chemical warfare to healing the world

Excurses: On the joys of writing and how to check my facts