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July 1996
558 pp.
$48.00/£35.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-62103-7
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-62103-8

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Bradford Books
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Table of Contents
High Noon on the Electronic Frontier
Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace
Edited by Peter Ludlow
Foreword by Mike Godwin


Peter Ludlow has culled from various sources, both print and electronic, key articles on hot cyberspace policy issues, together with lively extracts from online discussions of these issues. These include the standard academic pieces along with "rants and manifestos" on a broad range of issues from the denizens of cyberspace and reflect the discourse of cyberspace itself. At times they have what Ludlow terms "a certain gonzo quality," but nonetheless they raise serious conceptual issues in a way that illustrates precisely what is at stake. The topics covered in this timely compilation include privacy, property rights, hacking and cracking, encryption, censorship, and self and community on-line.

About the Editor

Peter Ludlow, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, is the author of Semantics, Tense, and Time: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Natural Language (MIT Press, 1999), among other books, and the editor of Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (MIT Press, 2001) and High Noon on the Electronic Frontier (MIT Press, 1996).


Reviews

"...this collection covers many timely issues...If you make your living by writing code, you have to read this book."
Peter Coffee, PC Week





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