1. Choose a book from the list below or any other book related to the course material.  (If you have any doubts about the appropriateness of the book you have selected, please ask.)  Write a review of about 500 words, similar to a newspaper book review, describing the book and indicating your evaluation of its insights on law, technology and society.  Your review should be posted on the "Discussion Board" in Blackboard.
2. When you have decided on a specific book to review, post the author and title of the book and the date your review will appear on the discussion board.  You may pick any date up to April 15, but you are encouraged to select a date before spring break so that you'll have time to work on your final project later in the semester.  Put the title of the book you plan to review in the subject of your posting so that others can see it without opening the message.  Please do not review a book already selected by another student, unless the student has not posted a review by the date indicated.
3. Read the reviews as they appear and post comments and questions for the reviewer.

The book review is 20% of your course grade. Reviews will be evaluated on the basis of their informative value for other students in the class, clarity of presentation, and thoughtfulness of content.  Thoughtful participation in the form of comments or questions on the reviews of others, or replies to questions on your own review, will enhance your book review grade.

Greg Bear, Blood Music
Greg Egan, Distress
W. Gibson, Neuromancer
Linda Nagata, Tech Heaven
Linda Nagata, The Bohr Maker
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson, Diamond Age
Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge, Across Realtime

Non-Fiction

Stuart Biegel, Beyond Our Control? Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace(2001)
David Brin, The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
Damien Broderick, The Spike
George B. Dyson,  Darwin Among the Machines : The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Helix Books)
Kenneth Ford et al., eds., Android Epistemology
Steven Furnell, Cybercrime:  Vandalizing the Information Society (2002)
Katie Hafner and John Markoff, Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, (1995)
Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach
David Koepsell, The Ontology of Cyberspace : Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual Property (2000)
Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines
Frederic Lane, Obscene Profits:  The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age
Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Jessica Litman, Digital Copyright : Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet
Richard Lewontin, Biology as Ideology:  the Case of DNA (1993)
Hans Moravec, Mind Children (1990)
Hans Moravec, Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind (2000)
Glen McGee, The Perfect Baby:  A Pragmatic Approach to Genetics (1997)
Elizabeth Neill, Rites of Privacy and the Privacy Trade (2001) [AUL]
Neil Postman, Technopoly:  The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1993)
Andrew L. Shapiro, The Control Revolution How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and
Changing the World We Know (2000)
Tsutomu Shimomura and John Markoff, Take-Down: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick,  New York:
Hyperion, 1996.
Smith, Robert Ellis, Ben Franklin's Web Site:  Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet
Richard A. Spinello, CyberEthics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace (2001)
Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown : Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1993)
Brian Tokar, Redesigning Life?  The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering