Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521877329)

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.

Author: David D. Friedman
ISBN-10: 0521877326
ISBN-13: 9780521877329
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/21/2008
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.34w x 1.02d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/15/2008 pg. 82
Harvard Business Review 11/01/2008 pg. 38
Scitech Book News 12/01/2008 pg. 132
Choice 03/01/2009