Future imperfect : technology and freedom in an uncertain world / David D. Friedman.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: vi, 351 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521877326
- 9780521877329
- 303.483 22
- T174 .F75 2008
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303.483 FRA The real world of technology / | 303.483 FRE Innovation, evolution, and complexity theory / | 303.483 FRI A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium / | 303.483 FRI Future imperfect : technology and freedom in an uncertain world / | 303.483 FRI Re-engineering humanity / | 303.483 GEN Gender & technology : a reader / | 303.483 GEN Genetic engineering and the world trade system : world trade forum / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-345) and index.
Introduction -- Living with change -- A world of strong privacy -- Information processing: threat or menace? Or if information is property, who owns it? -- Surveillance technology: the universal panopticon -- Ecash -- Contracts in cyberspace -- Watermarks and barbed wire -- Reactionary progress: amateur scholars and open source -- Intermission: what's a meta phor? -- The future of computer crime -- Law enforcement x 2 -- Human reproduction -- The more you know -- As gods in the garden -- Mind drugs -- The real science fiction -- The last lethal disease -- Very small legos -- Dangerous company -- All in your mind -- The Final frontier -- Interesting times.
"Future Imperfect describes and discusses a variety of technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications, and how to deal with them. Topics range from encryption and surveillance through biotechnology and nanotechnology to life extension, mind drugs, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. One theme of the book is that the future is radically uncertain. Technological changes already begun could lead to more or less privacy than we have ever known, freedom or slavery, effective immortality or the elimination of our species, and radical changes in life, marriage, law, medicine, work, and play. We do not know which future will arrive, but it is unlikely to be much like the past. It is worth starting to think about it now."--Publisher description.
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