Book Description
"INFOWAR - information.power.war": international specialists from the fields of science, economics and the arts discuss the strategies behind data-aided wars from the Gulf conflict to the cyber-guerilla. With the "success" of the Gulf War acting as a stimulus, "information warfare" is developing at an incredibly fast rate. Ranging from the computer-aided war, and the increase in the destructive potential of military operations through the use of information technology, virtual reality and high-tech weaponry, military strategists are increasingly turning their attention to "cyberwar", with its ultimate objective - the global information infrastructure itself: the destruction of computer and communication systems, the elimination of the data banks and the wiging-out of the enemy command and control systems. It is not, in the following contributions, primarily a question of what is technically imaginable, but of the different fronts in society that are in the process of undergoing profound and violent change.
JA Majors Book Info
Discusses issues ranging from hacker ethics to speculators informationally-generated acceleration of Asian financial markets. Provides a textbook example of the failure of conventional political control mechanisms. Paper.
