David D. Friedman: Future Imperfect. Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World (2008)
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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.
• Comments on radical changes in life, marriage, law, medicine, work, and play • Covers many different technologies and the different futures they might bring • Focuses on what world could be like if various technological advances continue to develop and how we might adjust”
Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2008
ISBN 0521877326, 9780521877329
351 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-3-9)
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Ehm, I am afraid that I need this book too. I can’t download it :-( Could you?… Thanx