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The internet edge : social, legal, and technological challenges for a networked world / Mark Stefik.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xviii, 320 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 026219418X
  • 9780262194181
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4834
LOC classification:
  • HM851 .S74 1999
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Internet Edge: Change and Connections -- 2. The Portable Network: Away from the Desktop and into the World -- 3. The Digital Wallet and the Copyright Box: The Coining Arms Race in Trusted Systems -- 4. The Bit and the Pendulum: Balancing the Interests of Stakeholders in Digital Publishing -- 5. Focusing the Light: Making Sense in the Information Explosion -- 6. The Next Knowledge Medium: Networks and Knowledge Ecologies -- 7. The Edge of Chaos: Coping with Rapid Change -- 8. The Digital Keyhole: Privacy Rights and Trusted Systems -- 9. Strangers in the Net: Access, Diversity, and Borders -- 10. Indistinguishable from Magic: The Real, the Magic, and the Virtual -- Epilogue: The Next Edge and Discovering Ourselves -- About the Author -- References -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Credits -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Internet Edge: Change and Connections -- 2. The Portable Network: Away from the Desktop and into the World -- 3. The Digital Wallet and the Copyright Box: The Coining Arms Race in Trusted Systems -- 4. The Bit and the Pendulum: Balancing the Interests of Stakeholders in Digital Publishing -- 5. Focusing the Light: Making Sense in the Information Explosion -- 6. The Next Knowledge Medium: Networks and Knowledge Ecologies -- 7. The Edge of Chaos: Coping with Rapid Change -- 8. The Digital Keyhole: Privacy Rights and Trusted Systems -- 9. Strangers in the Net: Access, Diversity, and Borders -- 10. Indistinguishable from Magic: The Real, the Magic, and the Virtual -- Epilogue: The Next Edge and Discovering Ourselves -- About the Author -- References -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Credits -- Index.

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