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Professor of computer science at Harvard and the former dean of Harvard College. He is co-author of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion.
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Harry Lewis: "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion."
Almost everything we now do on a regular basis, from sending emails, taking photographs, writing text messages, calling on our cell phones, downloading music, typing on our computers, and using our credit and ATM cards, all of it generates information. And every single day the endless information generated by our ever-expanding digital footprints is recorded, tracked, searched through, sold, analyzed,...February 12, 2009 | Story
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