“Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology” by Howard Rheingold is available online. Tools for Thought is an exercise in retrospective futurism; that is, I wrote it in the early 1980s, attempting to look at what the mid 1990s would be like. …
The Wealth of Networks : How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
“The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom” by Yochai Benkler, Yale University Press. With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. …
Intellectual Property Issues in Software
Software is the product of intellectual creativity, but protection of the intellectual property residing in software is the subject of some controversy. …
Open Architecture as Communications Policy
The book explores new, technology-neutral approaches to preserving both open communications networks and the freedom of the Internet. Open architecture is the design principle on which the success of the Internet and digital computer and communications technologies rests. …
Netiquette
This book brings etiquette to the bustling frontiers of cyberspace. In a series of entertaining essays, the author establishes the do’s and the don’ts of communicating online. Cyberspace is booming. Each month, millions of people are discovering the power of the Internet, online services, and corporate email systems. With this power comes responsibility. …
Information Retrieval
Keith Van Rijsbergen demonstrates how different models of information retrieval (IR) can be combined in the same framework used to formulate the general principles of quantum mechanics. …
Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines
Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines provides a comprehensive understanding of the field of voice processing for engineers, researchers, and business executives, as well as speech and hearing specialists, advocates for people with disabilities, faculty and students, and interested individuals. …
Who Goes There?: Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy
Who Goes There?: Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy explores authentication technologies (passwords, PKI, biometrics, etc.) and their implications for the privacy of the individuals being authenticated. The book explains how privacy is affected by system design decisions. …
Digital History
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web provides for the first time a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians–teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts who wish to produce online historical work or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium. …
Youth, Pornography, and the Internet
Youth, Pornography, and the Internet examines approaches to protecting children and teens from Internet pornography, threats from sexual predators operating on-line, and other inappropriate material on the Internet. …