Future Imperfect (original) (raw)

David D. Friedman

Part One: Prologue

1: Introduction
2: Living with Change

Part Two: 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 Technology: The Universal Panopticon

Part Three: 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 Four: Crime and Control

11: The Future of Computer Crime
12: Law Enforcement × 2

Part Five: Biotechnologies

13: Human Reproduction
14: The More You Know …
15: As Gods in the Garden
16: Mind Drugs

Part Six: 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

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