Ebook: Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce are Fragmenting the World Wide Web

The virtual reality of modern war. The people counters ; "Signaling is important as a weapon" ; Fire control ; "The engineer and his relation to government" ; The missile is the message ; Trails through the wilderness ; SAGE, MANIAC, and MAD -- Liberation technology. Geeks and bohemians ; Why California? ; "Machines of loving grace" ; The people's computer center ; The blind boys of Berkeley ; The return of the state -- Splinternet. Walled gardens full of money ; The back door ; Mr. Slippery -- Conclusion.