Book Review - Swipe to Unlock

Swipe to Unlock
by Neel Mehta, Parth Detroja, Adi Agashe

The author has an incredible ability to explain things super easy with a great analogy. I wish I had this when I first experienced computer and internet. I thought this book is a great book to re-read till I could use in order to explain to my kids when they go to elementary school. I think this will be a great introductory content for youngsters since it covers topics like Operating Systems, Internets, Cloud Computing, and Big Data.

Three things I learned from this book -
1. Bloatware business model - smartphone comes with so many pre-installed app that users can't delete and eats up phone battery.
2. The Internet section clearly illustrates how it works. I was super impressed with the simple analogy to explain TCP/IP, DNS along with other things.
3. The world of deep web and dark(TOR, the onion router) - I have never realized how big the black market is.

The part I miss in this book is the depth of each topic. The target audiences of this book are those who are not familiar with technology and business model ('how to make money"). Because of that, each topic did not go deep as much as I would like to see. This was not any scientific research or theoretical book. This is super easy, questions & answers types of books that you can enjoy with your kids.

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