Special thanks to my technical editor and long-time mentor, Richard Kaczmarek, who described his role in reviewing my drafts as “helping you find your voice and say what you believe to be true and important.” Any misstatements are my own. He and Elsevier editorial project manager, Anna Valutkevich, encouraged me to come through the rabbit holes of research and commit words to paper—and then let them go and continue. I would also like to express my appreciation to the scholars who have given me opportunities to develop knowledge about technology and share it with others: Dan Likarish and Bob Bowles (Regis University), Professor Eugene “Spaf” Spafford (Purdue University), Professor Stephan Jones (Ball State University), Roland Cole (Sagamore Institute for Policy Research), and Amy Conrad Warner (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis). Thank you to Chris Katsaropoulos (Elsevier Publishing) for taking a chance with a first-time book author.
And to all who take the time to peruse these chapters, consider how technology can be used and abused, and choose to thwart the latter: Courage! We all need to think like a black hat and behave like a white hat.