Future imperfect: technology and freedom in an uncertain world

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PART ONE: PROLOGUE
	ONE Introduction
		POSSIBLE FUTURES
			Privacy x 3 or
			Commerce in Cyberspace
			Crime, Cops, and Computers
			Designer Kids, Long Life, and Corpsicles
			The Real Science Fiction
			Alternatives
	TWO Living with Change
		A SIMPLE EXAMPLE: THE DEATH OF COPYRIGHT
		DEFAMATION ONLINE: A LESS SIMPLE EXAMPLE
		UNSTEADY GROUND
			The Child with Five Parents
			The Living Dead
		IT’S NOT JUST LAW, IT’S LIFE
			The Decline of Marriage
			The Future of Marriage
			Doing Business Online
		BRAKES? WHAT BRAKES?
PART TWO: PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY
	THREE A World of Strong Privacy
		ENCRYPTION CONCEALS…
			What I Say
			To Whom
			Who I Am
			And Whom I Pay
			Combine and Stir
			Handing Out the Keys: A Brief Digression
		A WORLD OF STRONG PRIVACY
			The Virtual Second Amendment
			If You Work for the IRS, Stop Here
			The Downside of Strong Privacy
			Why It Will Not Be Stopped
			Property Rights and Myopia
		APPENDIX I: PUBLIC KEY ENCRYPTION: A VERY ELEMENTARY EXAMPLE
		APPENDIX II: CHAINING ANONYMOUS REMAILERS
	FOUR Information Processing: Threat or Menace? Or If Information Is Property,Who Owns It?
		THE MARKET FOR INFORMATION
			Toward Information as Property
			How Not to Protect Privacy
		TWO ROADS TO PROPERTY IN PERSONAL INFORMATION
	FIVE Surveillance Technology: The Universal Panopticon
		The Upside of Transparency
		Selective Transparency
		The Downside of Transparency
		WHAT IS PRIVACY AND WHY DO WE WANT IT?
			The Case Against Privacy
			Privacy and Government
		SAY IT AIN’T SO
		SHOULD WE ABOLISH THE CRIMINAL LAW?
		WHERE WORLDS COLLIDE
PART THREE: DOING BUSINESS ONLINE
	SIX Ecash
		SLICING SPAM
		CONSTRUCTING ECASH
			The Double Spending Problem
			Low-Tech Ecash
			Robot Mechanics
		ECASH AND PRIVACY
		PRIVATE MONEY: A NEW OLD STORY
		WILL IT HAPPEN?
	SEVEN Contracts in Cyberspace
		THE LOGIC OF REPUTATIONAL ENFORCEMENT
			Very Close to Zero: Third-Party Costs in Cyberspace
			The Reputation Market
		CONCLUSION
			Relative Prices Rule the World
	EIGHT Watermarks and Barbed Wire
		COPYRIGHT IN DIGITAL MEDIA
			Digital Watermarks
		DIGITAL BARBED WIRE
		ADDING IT ALL UP
		AND FOR OUR NEXT TRICK
	NINE Reactionary Progress – Amateur Scholars and Open Source
		OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
		JIMMY WALES’S IMPOSSIBLE SUCCESS
		MARKET AND HIERARCHY
		INFORMATION WARFARE
			Case 1: The Tale of the Four Little Pigs
			A Sad Story
			Lessons
		OPEN SOURCE CRIME CONTROL
	TEN Intermission What’s a Meta Phor?
		METAPHORICAL CRIMES
			Choosing a Metaphor
			The Boundaries of Intent
			How to Break Into Computers
			Is Copying Stealing? The Bell South Case
			Crime or Tort?
PART FOUR: CRIME AND CONTROL
	ELEVEN The Future of Computer Crime
		THE PAST AS PROLOGUE
		WONDERS OF A NETWORKED WORLD
			Distributed Computing: The Solution the Problem Comes From
			Growing Pains
			The Worm Turns: Clients Fooling Servers
		HIGH-TECH TERRORISM: NIGHTMARE OR EMPLOYMENT PROJECT?
	TWELVE Law Enforcement × 2
		HIGH-TECH CRIME CONTROL
		KNOWING TOO MUCH
		EVERY PHONE
			A Legal Digression:My Brief for the Bad Guys
		LIVING ID CARDS
		THE OBSOLESCENCE OF CRIMINAL LAW
			A Brief Temporal Digression
			Forward into the Past
			Private Enforcement Online
PART FIVE: BIOTECHNOLOGIES
	THIRTEEN Human Reproduction
		BUILDING BETTER BABIES
			Libertarian Eugenics
		HOW TO RETROFIT A CHROMOSOME
			Maybe Huxley Got It Right
		WHY BOTHER?
			Reasons Not To Do It
			Where Have All the Women Gone?
			Class Genes
		SLOWING THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK
	FOURTEEN The More You Know…
		WISE FATHERS
			Technological Wisdom
			If All Fathers Are Wise…
		THE PARENT PROBLEM
			Two, Four, Many
		PEOPLE CONSIDERED AS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
		IS IGNORANCE BLISS?
		AMBIGUOUS GENDER
	FIFTEEN As Gods in the Garden
	DESIGNER CROPS
		New under the Sun
		A Nest of Serpents?
		Can We Compete with Mother Nature?
		Technological Protection for Biotechnology
	SATAN IN THE WINGS
		Killing Only the Right People
	SIXTEEN Mind Drugs
		BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY
			Pleasure and Happiness
				Happiness
			Performance
			Personality
			Control
				Conditions of Employment
		THE CHEMISTRY OF LOVE
		A FINAL NOTE
PART SIX: THE REAL SCIENCE FICTION
	SEVENTEEN The Last Lethal Disease
		THE DOWNSIDE OF IMMORTALITY?
			World Enough and Time
			Life or a Hundred Years, Whichever Is Shorter
		A COLD CENTURY IN HELL
	EIGHTEEN Very Small Legos
		VERY HARD SOFTWARE
		THE GRAY GOO SCENARIO
			Almost Worse than the Disease
			Between a Rock and a Hard Place
	NINETEEN Dangerous Company
		A NEWWORLD
		DROPPING THE OTHER SHOE
	TWENTY All In Your Mind
		TODAY AND TOMORROW: THE WORLD OF PRIMITIVE VR
			My Contribution to Corpore Sano
		DEEP VR – BEYOND THE DREAMING PROBLEM
			BeamMe Up, Scotty
			Future Fiction
			Fantasy: Substitute or Complement
			What Matters
		POSTSCRIPT: AND NOW WE HAVE A WINNER
	TWENTY-ONE The Final Frontier
		VIEW FROM THE BOTTOM OF A WELL
		TAKE A VERY LONG ROPE…
			And Off We Go
		CONCENTRATING THE MIND: THE PROBLEM OF NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS
		AD ASTRA
		FIFTY YEARS AFTER THEY STOP LAUGHING
	TWENTY-TWO Interesting Times
		MULTIPLE FUTURES
		FUTURE IMPERFECT
		THE COORDINATION PROBLEM
			The Dark Side of the Force
			Growing Pains
		ENVIRONMENTALISM, RESOURCES, AND WHY WE SHOULD WORRY ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING BUT NOT JUST YET
Notes
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
	Chapter 15
	Chapter 16
	Chapter 17
	Chapter 18
	Chapter 19
	Chapter 20
	Chapter 21
	Chapter 22
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