Author’s Note: Technology has always enabled war. Throughout history, the nation-states that created new weapons through innovation greatly expanded their geopolitical influence. From gunpowder, to the airplane, to the atomic bomb—advances in technology have been the...
Woody has been a technologist for thirty years, writing digital media software for startups and large corporations. After spending most of that time in California, he returned to New York, where he is currently editing a collection of essays and stories about life in Silicon Valley. He holds an M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as a B.A. in music and M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia.
Cyber Warfare: The Narrative in the Network
In January 2011, John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, addressed a group of Asian visitors to CES, the consumer electronics show held each year in Las Vegas. Seated among priceless works of art in a penthouse suite at the Venetian Hotel, Chambers made small talk to...