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The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

Bottom of the pile

12

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

21/100

Critics

2/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Jacob Helberg

Publisher:

Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

Date:

October 12, 2021

A senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology and former news policy lead at Google lays out the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the autocracies of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy.

What The Reviewers Say

Joseph C. Sternberg,
The Wall Street Journal
A worthwhile meditation on this so-called gray war might reflect on how we often wage such a war on ourselves.

Publishers Weekly
... a chilling study of how 'techno-totalitarian' regimes are seeking to control the hardware and software of the internet.

Kirkus
Helberg is entirely correct in his assessment that this will require overhauling science and engineering education and expanding government-business cooperation, all of which will lead to a modern 'Sputnik moment'.