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9780521877329

Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521877329

  • ISBN10:

    0521877326

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-07-21
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

David D. Friedman is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University, California.

Table of Contents

Prolog
Introduction
Living with change
Privacy and Technology
A world of strong privacy
Information processing: threat or menace? or if information is property, who owns it?
Surveillance tech: the universal panopticon
Doing Business Online
Ecash
Contracts in cyberspace
Watermarks and barbed wire
Reactionary progress - amateur scholars and open source
Intermission: what's a meta phor?
Crime and Control
The future of computer crime
Law enforcement x 2
Biotechnologies
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
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