Adam Rothstein
Author
Series
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering. Market manipulation. Governments overthrown. These might sound like plot lines of a conspiracy thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of cryptocurrencies. Originally conceived by computer hackers and cryptographers, these digital currencies, represent a completely new sort of financial transaction - one that doesn't need banks. Yet it's the technology that underpins...
2) Drone
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toys to weapons. And yet, as broadly defined as they are, the word "drone" fills many of us with a sense of technological dread. Adam Rothstein cuts through the mystery, the unknown, and the political posturing, and talks about what drones really are: what...