Hal Abelson and Harry Lewis: Making Sense of the 'Digital Explosion'




Chronicle of Higher Education Audio: Interviews show

Summary: A new book, "Blown to Bits," offers engineer's-eye views on copyright infringement, digital censorship, and "why we lost our privacy, or gave it away." Two of the book's authors -- Hal Abelson, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harry Lewis, a professor of computer science at Harvard University -- weigh in on what they call "the digital explosion."