Digital Societies and the Internet: What the Present is Bringing to the Future

The Internet is becoming the tool for creating untold wealth for thousands, but at what cost to the average user and employee? With the rapid growth and changes in Internet usage, average Internet users and even companies have been left in an information vacuum. Freedoms slip away for individuals and companies with the lack of knowledge, freedoms that were originally intended for individuals. This book provides insight into social, commercial, and political issues that headline the news, issues that directly affect companies and individual users of the Internet.

The Internet has moved toward communications, entertainment, commercial enterprises, and dependence on collected information in Internet clouds. Terms are defined in context while explaining Internet transformations. The book's style and content focuses on individual users as well as professional users who lack the time to stay informed.

Uyless Black's personal, first-hand experience with the emerging Internet and with software contracts with ARPA included simulating naval engagements among Cold War countries. He worked with advanced packet switching networks, the technology on which the Internet is based. These experiences provided a platform for his knowledge, technology expertise critical to the competitive advantage

The author's career years as an international lecturer on Internet architecture, training corporate leaders and lead engineers in fourteen nations gave him a view of the Internet from its internal workings to its application to the government, corporations, and individuals worldwide. Internet transformations led to his writing 35 experience-based books on computer networks, published by major publishing companies.

The timing of Uyless Black's career, his writing 35 books, and international insight led to his writing this composite of his career experiences: Digital Societies and the Internet: What the Present is Bringing to the Future. Easy to Understand, Usable Reference.