David D. Friedman

Future Imperfect

Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discusses a variety of technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades and their implications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780521877329
• ISBN-10: 0521877326
• Artikelnr.: 23882620

Autorenporträt

David D. Friedman is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University, California. His ¿rst book, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, was published in 1973, remains in print and is considered a libertarian classic. His scientific interest in the future is also long-standing. Professor Friedman's web page, www.davidfriedman.com, averages more than 3,000 visitors a day and his blog, Ideas, at http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com receives about 400 daily visits.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Prolog: 1. Introduction
2. Living with change
Part II. Privacy and Technology: 3. A world of strong privacy
4. Information processing: threat or menace? or if information is property, who owns it?
5. Surveillance tech: the universal panopticon
Part III. Doing Business Online: 6. Ecash
7. Contracts in cyberspace
8. Watermarks and barbed wire
9. Reactionary progress - amateur scholars and open source
10. Intermission: what's a meta phor?
Part IV. Crime and Control: 11. The future of computer crime
12. Law enforcement x 2
Part V. Biotechnologies: 13. Human reproduction
14. The more you know ¿
15. As gods in the garden
16. Mind drugs
Part VI. The Real Science Fiction: 17. The last lethal disease
18. Very small Legos
19. Dangerous company
20. All in your mind
21. The final frontier
22. Interesting times.