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Future Imperfect

Future Imperfect

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  • ISBN:9780521877329
  • Editorial: Cambridge University Press
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  • Nº Pág.:351
  • Idiomas:Inglés,Ingles

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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.

Pt. 1 Prologue
1 Introduction 3
2 Living with Change 12
Pt. 2 Privacy and Technology
3 A World of Strong Privacy 31
4 Information Processing: Threat or Menace? Or If Information Is Property, Who Owns It? 54
5 Surveillance Technology: The Universal Panopticon 66
Pt. 3 Doing Business Online
6 Ecash 83
7 Contracts in Cyberspace 97
8 Watermarks and Barbed Wire 108
9 Reactionary Progress - Amateur Scholars and Open Source 123
10 Intermission: What's a Meta Phor? 144
Pt. 4 Crime and Control
11 The Future of Computer Crime 163
12 Law Enforcement x 2 173
Pt. 5 Biotechnologies
13 Human Reproduction 189
14 The More You Know ... 202
15 As Gods in the Garden 216
16 Mind Drugs 227
Pt. 6 The Real Science Fiction
17 The Last Lethal Disease 249
18 Very Small Legos 260
19 Dangerous Company 275
20 All in Your Mind 281
21 The Final Frontier 293
22 Interesting Times 307
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