Thomas Rid: 5 books

Book cover of Mythos Cyberwar

Mythos Cyberwar

Über digitale Spionage, Sabotage und andere Gefahren

by Thomas Rid
Language: German
Release Date: March 26, 2018

Der Politikwissenschaftler Thomas Rid ist sich sicher: Ein Cyberkrieg findet nicht statt. Den bisher dokumentierten Cyberattacken fehlen die zielgerichtete Gewalt gegen Menschen und die brutale Zerstörung, die untrennbar mit einem Krieg verbunden sind. Beruhigt zurücklehnen können wir uns dennoch...
Book cover of Active Measures

Active Measures

The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

by Thomas Rid
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2020

This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms We live in the age of disinformation**—**of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking,...
Book cover of Maschinendämmerung

Maschinendämmerung

Eine kurze Geschichte der Kybernetik

by Thomas Rid
Language: German
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Wir leben längst in der schönen neuen Cyberwelt. Das "Internet der Dinge" wird bald zum Alltag gehören, selbstfahrende Autos und Containerschiffe, Assistenzroboter oder permanentes Lifelogging stehen vor der Tür. Kontrollieren wir noch unsere Maschinen, oder kontrollieren sie längst uns? Wie...
Book cover of Cyber War Will Not Take Place
by Thomas Rid
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

"Cyber war is coming," announced a land-mark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the "fifth domain" of warfare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cyber war really coming? Has war indeed entered the fifth...
Book cover of Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
by Thomas Rid
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

"Dazzling.” —Financial Times As lives offline and online merge even more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, one of the twentieth century’s pivotal ideas. Springing from the mind of mathematician Norbert...
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