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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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.