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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050	0	0	_aT174 _b.F75 2008
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100	1		_aFriedman, David D., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFuture imperfect : _btechnology and freedom in an uncertain world / _cDavid D. Friedman.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2008.
300			_a1 online resource (vi, 351 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 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.
520			_aFuture 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.
650		0	_aTechnological forecasting.
650		0	_aTechnology _xSocial aspects.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aCambridge eBooks.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521877329
856	4	0	_uhttp://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511516
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