The Wires of War

Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

Jacob Helberg, Jesse Einstein

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English

Simon & Schuster Audio
12 October 2021

Warfare & defence; Internet searching; Computer security

From the former news policy lead at Google, an urgent and groundbreaking account of the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the autocracies of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy.

From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google's global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a quickly escalating two-front technology cold war between democracy and autocracy. On the front-end, we're fighting to control the software--applications, news information, social media platforms, and more--of what we see on the screens of our computers, tablets, and phones, a clash which started out primarily with Russia but now increasingly includes China and Iran. Even more ominously, we're also engaged in a hidden back-end battle--largely with China--to control the Internet's hardware, which includes devices like cellular phones, satellites, fiber-optic cables, and 5G networks. This tech-fueled war will shape the world's balance of power for the coming century as autocracies exploit twenty-first-century methods to re-divide the world into twentieth century-style spheres of influence. Helberg cautions that the spoils of this fight are power over every meaningful aspect of our lives, including our economy, our infrastructure, our national security, and ultimately, our national sovereignty. Without a firm partnership with the government, Silicon Valley is unable to protect democracy from the autocrats looking to sabotage it from Beijing to Moscow and Tehran. The stakes of the ongoing cyberwar are no less than our nation's capacity to chart its own future, the freedom of our democratic allies, and even the ability of each of us to control our own fates, Helberg says. And time is quickly running out.

By: Jacob Helberg
Read by: Jesse Einstein
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Audio
Dimensions: Height: 144mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 236g
ISBN: 9781797132747
ISBN 10: 1797132741
Publication Date: 12 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Jacob Helberg is a senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Helberg is also co-chairing the Brookings Institution China Strategy Working Group. From 2016 to 2020, Helberg led Google's internal global product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference, including policy and enforcement processes against state-backed foreign interference, misinformation, and actors undermining election integrity. Helberg graduated magna cum laude with a BA in international affairs from the George Washington University and received his MS in cybersecurity risk and strategy from New York University.

Reviews for The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

"A bracing book about an urgent problem--the rise of an authoritarian techno-bloc that is trying to roll back the frontiers of digital freedom. Jacob Helberg explains the interplay of technology and geopolitics in sharp, lucid prose. -- ""Hal Brands, author of The Twilight Struggle"" The battle for the future is being waged at the intersection of technology and geopolitics. That is where Jacob Helberg lives...Helberg paints a vivid and at times frightening picture, but not without hope that free societies will rise to the occasion. Those looking for a guide to the dangers and opportunities of this brave new world need look no further. -- ""Robert Kagan, New York Times bestselling author"""