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“Cyberattacks are a threat to infrastructure. A cyberattack on Ukraine's power grid Iin 2015 left 700,000 people without electricity for hours. In 2013, Iranian hackers attacked a dam outside New York City. In 2016, a U.S. court convicted a Russian of attacks that caused more than $169 million in losses to 3,700 financial institutions.”

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Book:From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future

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“We know the stories that led us to this moment. We know how actions of those who dealt with history's changes created our today. Now we are in a historic moment of our own, and it's our turn to guide how new technology determines the future.”

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Book:From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future

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“As the collected stories of the human journey, history offers the fundamental lesson that the challenges we face today aren't unique. No matter how much we flatter ourselves with self-absorption, we are but the continuation of the human saga.”

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Book:From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future

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“Included in the GSM standard for mobile devices was the ability to use the mobile network's control channel (the parhway that controls the call but doesn't carry the call itself) to send short alphanumeric messages. It was envisioned principally as a means for one-way communication from the company to the subscriber (such as "your bill is due"). That changed when the functionality was discovered by Norwegian teenagers in the late 1980s.”

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Book:From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future

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