![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So what’s the secret? Well…on the surface it’s not that secret. Careening through the forgotten canals of history, Captain Levine makes the absolutely incredible sound totally obvious, and in doing so prepares readers for revelations that might seem absurd had they not already read the first two-thirds of this book. The cogent narrative ferries the reader from the humid, embattled jungles of Vietnam to the technological opulence of the San Francisco Bay Area. In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine employs journalistic grit and extreme thoroughness to expose a history of the Internet that is at once frightening and familiar. They would pine for its utility in warfare, assured that it would have favored US operations in the war-zones of 1960s southeast Asia. In fact they would likely beam with pride to see their ideas refined, and applied to a scale that was beyond their capabilities. To the top-brass of the late-century US military, the modern Internet and its connected devices wouldn’t appear as a mind-numbing culture shock. ![]()
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