Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security

Brian Kernighan

Technology

A general-audience explanation of how computers, software, and the Internet work. Kernighan covers how computers are built and compute, what programming is, how networks and the web operate, and how these technologies affect security, privacy, and society. It is aimed at non-specialists who want to understand the digital systems they depend on.