In the place where you can select how much you want to pay for this book, there is a slider for the price, what the author gets paid, and what the "cause" gets. The "cause" I have selected is the EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://eff.org If you are not already familiar with this organization they strongly support user rights and privacy, and deserve a lot more than I've allocated. But everything starts somewhere, right?
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You may have noticed that the cover image is a shot of a stand of trees. It's actually on the walk up Horn Pond mountain (ok more of a hillock). There are several attempts at "bad pun" here:
1) I want you to see the forest AND the trees. The big picture and some of the details. 2) It is also inspired by a recent book I read, by Cixin Liu - The Dark Forest, it is the second book in a trilogy starting with The Three Body Problem. Science fiction, all 3 are tomes. But fascinating reading. The Dark Forest concept is that while humans stomp through a forest, we rarely see anything in it, and it's easy to think we're in the forest by ourselves. But if you are quiet and watch a bit, you will easily see that the forest is teeming with life: both predators and prey. Humans are uniquely stupid in assuming nobody else is out there -- as exemplified by the fact we have no qualms about broadcasting radio and other signals into space willy-nilly. One way to look at this is: we are telling the universe "Hey, there's lunch here, come visit and take it, enslave a planet ..." The other lesson is something we can tell our kids (and friends even if they are not kids): the internet is a dark forest, teeming with predators, and if you're not careful about spewing your personal information everywhere, you will become the prey. Seriously. Something to start thinking about taking on a mindset to change one's behavior interacting with social media and everything else on the internet. It's time. There is always room for improvement but delay has its price too. The Leanpub platform provides updates to the books for free, so as new topics are added and corrections made, people who purchase the book will have access to updated information. Meanwhile this blog will be a means to receive feedback. I hope you find it useful.
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