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Hal Abelson and Harry Lewis: Making Sense of the 'Digital Explosion'


A new book, Blown to Bits, offers engineer's-eye views on copyright infringement, digital censorship, and "why we lost our privacy, or gave it away." Two of the book's authors —Hal Abelson, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harry Lewis, a professor of computer science at Harvard University — weigh in on what they call "the digital explosion." (9:04)
Photographs courtesy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University