Future imperfect : technology and freedom in an uncertain world / David D. Friedman.
"Future Imperfect describes and discusses a variety of technological revolutions that might happen over the next 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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "Future Imperfect describes and discusses a variety of technological revolutions that might happen over the next 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; 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."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 351 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511422601 9780511422607 0511423268 9780511423260 0511423772 9780511423772 0511424256 9780511424250 0511511515 9780511511516 1107601657 9781107601659 1281775762 9781281775764 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511511516 |