The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the SystemBasic Books, 11 мая 2005 г. - Всего страниц: 320 From Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs, the debate over information technology in our lives has revolved around a single question: How closely do we want cyberspace to resemble the real world? Siva Vaidhyanathan enters this debate with a seminal insight: While we've been busy debating how to make cyberspace imitate the world, the world has been busy imitating cyberspace. More and more of our social, political, and religious activities are modeling themselves after the World Wide Web.Vaidhyanathan tells us the key information structure of our time, and the key import from cyberspace into the world, is the "peer-to-peer network." Peer-to-peer networks have always existed -- but with the rise of electronic communication, they are suddenly coming into their own. And they are drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century, affecting everything from society to terrorism, from religion to the latest social fads. The Anarchist in the Library is a radically original look at how this battle defines one of the major fault lines of twenty-first-century civilization. |
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Hacking the Currency | 25 |
The PeertoPeer Revolution and the Future of Music | 41 |
A Work in Progress or the Final Edit? | 65 |
Imagineering | 85 |
Culture as Anarchy | 97 |
The Perfect Library | 115 |
The Empire Strikes Back | 167 |
Conclusion | 185 |
Bibliography | 221 |
ix | 245 |
15 | 246 |
41 | 247 |
81 | 248 |
97 | 249 |
The Anarchy and Oligarchy of Science and Math | 131 |
The NationState Versus Networks | 151 |
151 | 252 |
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Стр. 171 - To defeat this threat, we must make use of every tool in our arsenal — military power, better homeland defenses, law enforcement, intelligence, and vigorous efforts to cut off terrorist financing. The war against terrorists of global reach is a global enterprise of uncertain duration.
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Стр. 172 - We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best. We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants, who solemnly sign non-proliferation treaties, and then systematically break them. If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.