Law, Technology and Society - Additional Links

Possibilities and limitations of technology
Internet and community
Nanotechnology
Biotechnology
Human Genome
Gene Therapy
Stem Cell Research
Cloning
Genetic Engineering in Agriculture:  the Golden Rice Controversy
Life Extension
Artificial Intelligence
Intellectual Property
EBook controversy
Censorship
Privacy
Hacking
Law and Cyberspace
 

Possibilities and limitations of technology

Lusseyran, And there was light - Review in NetFutures
William Wells, " Can Science Be Stopped?"

Internet and Community

Marcelo Rinesi, I'm Glad the Net `Corrodes' My Culture
Muktha Jost, Who Are We Without Our Technologies?
Sherry Turkle, Virtuality and its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace
William A. Galston, Does the Internet Strengthen Community?
Steve Talbott, How About a Moratorium on Internet Surveys?
Internet Society (ISOC) All About the Internet: A Brief History of the Internet
Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, Internet and Society:  Preliminary Report (February 2000)
Pew Internet and American Life Project, Online Communities: Networks That Nurture Long-Distance Relationships and Local Ties (October 2001) (read summary of findings)
Sherry Turkle, Virtuality and its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace
Other Journals, Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
Internet Society (ISOC) All About the Internet: A Brief History of the Internet

Nanotechnology

Wired 8.04: Bill Joy, Why the future doesn't need us
Richard Feynman, There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959)
Nanotechnology at Scientific American
Bill Joy, Why the future doesn't need us. Wired 8.04, April 2000
Scientific American, The New Nanofrontier (11/27/2000)
Nanotech's Dark Side Debated in the Aftershock of Sept. 11
National Nanotechnology Initiative
Lusseyran, And there was light - Review in NetFutures

Biotech

"The Chips Are Coming,"   by William Wells
Medical uses for implanted biochips.
Gregory Benford, "Freedom and Franchise: The Argument Against Control."
University of Arizona Biology Project
Biology Hypertextbook
Online introduction to cell biology
Introduction to molecular biology
Latest Biotech news from The Center for the Study of Technology and Society (newspaper and magazine articles)
Organismic & Evolutionary Bio 95hfv Syllabus
Florida_v._Andrews (218k): 1988, Court found genetic fingerprinting permissible evidence
Diamond v. Chak.pdf (72k): U. S. Patent Office rules that microorganisms are patentable
List of Bioethics Centers
Genetic Engineering and Its Dangers, Ron Epstein, SFSU
Council for Biotechnology Information, Golden Rice
FDA Consumer:  Are Bioengineered Foods Safe?
Genetic Resources Action International, Grains of Delusion

Human Genome Project

Human genome map (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
Human Genome News (Dept. of Energy)
Human Genome Project audioprogram (Dept. of Energy)(pdf transcript)

Gene therapy

Gene Therapy audioprogram (pdf transcript)
Glen McGee, The Perfect Baby
Human Germline Engineering:  Best Hope or Worst Fear?

Cloning

Cloning and the Law, Scientific American, 11/24/01
Leon R. Kass, Preventing a Brave New World, New Republic, May 21, 2001
The First Human Cloned Embryo, Scientific American, 11/24/01
Publications of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, including reports on human cloning and stem cell research
Richard Lewontin, "The Confusion over Cloning," The New York Review of Books, October 23, 1997.
Harold T. Shapiro, James F. Childress, and Thomas H. Murray, "The Confusion over Cloning An Exchange," The New York Review of Books,
*Leon Eisenberg, The Outcome as Cause:  Predestination and Human Cloning (in Brannigan)
*Stephen Jay Gould, Dolly's Fashion and Louis's Passion:  Ruminations on the Downfall of a King and the Cloning of a Sheep (in Brannigan)
*Leon Kass, The Wisdom of Repugnance (in Brannigan)
Cult seeks to clone human baby

Stem Cell Research

Sean Henehan, Stemming the Tide (news on stem cell research, 7/01)
J. Robertson, "Ethics and Policy in Embryonic Stem Cell Research," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 9 (2): 109-136.
E. Juengst and M. Fossel, "The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cells -- Now and Forever, Cells Without End," Journal of the American Medical Association, December 27, 2000 (vol. 284. No. 4): 3180-3184.
D. Resnik, Commodification of human reproductive materials.  Journal of Medical Ethics, 1998 24:388-93.
A. Caplan, Stem cell therapy raises ethical issues.  www.msnbc.com, 11/5/98.
www.bioethix.org
Annas, Caplan, and Elias, 1996.  Politics of Human-Embryo Research.  New England Journal of Medicine 334: 1329-32.
Gerrand, Nicole.  Creating Embryos for Research.  Journal of Applied Philosophy 10: 175-187.
Radin, M.  Contested Commodities.  Harvard, 1996.
NIH, Stem Cell Primer
Daniel McConchie, Using Stem Cells from Embryos Will Make Human Flesh Profitable
Washington Post, Faith is a Force on Both Sides of Stem Cell Debate
William Slate, The Importance of Appearing Ethical
Bush statement
Leon Kass, Preventing A Brave New World, New Republic, May 2001.

Genetic Engineering in Agriculture:  the Golden Rice Controversy

Ron Epstein, Redesigning the World:  Ethical Questions about Genetic Engineering
Martha Crouch, From Golden Rice to Terminator Technology [course packet]
Vandana Shiva, The "Golden Rice" Hoax
Council for Biotechnology Information, Golden Rice
FDA Consumer: Are Bioengineered Foods Safe?
Genetic Resources Action International, Grains of Delusion
Craig Holdredge and Steve Talbot, Golden Genes and World Hunger
Life Extension
New York Academy of Sciences, Time to Talk SENS: Critiquing the Immutability of Human Aging
Authors argue that reversal of aging in mice will be possible within ten years and in humans shortly thereafter.
CNN, Scientists Discover Cellular "Fountain of Youth"
J. R. Wilmoth, L. J. Deegan, H. Lundström, and S. Horiuchi, "Increase of Maximum Life-Span in Sweden, 1861-1999." Science 2000 September 29; 289: 2366-2368.
John Grimley Evans, Medical Geratology
Shay, Facts about Telomeres and Telomerase
Discussion with Dr Shay, Aging and Cancer:  Are Telomeres and Telomerase the Connection?
Telomerase and Immortality
Center for Study of Technology and Society Cryonics/Life Extension links
Immortality (by Lloyd Reinhardt)
Aubade, poem by Philip Larkin
Murphy, Fear of Death and Rationality
Pojman, Life and Death:  A reader
http://www.extropy.org/selftrns.htm Written by Max More
Vaupel, New Insight into Problem of Longevity
Aging Research Center
Center for Research and Education in Aging (Berkeley)
 

Artificial Intelligence

Online papers on consciousness
The Structure of Cognition
Consciousness and Common Sense
SCIENCE'S LAST FRONTIERS: Consciousness, Life and Meaning
Godel's Theorems
Peter Suber, "Gödel's Proof"
Searle's Chinese Box
Peek at new book: ROBOT by Hans Moravec
Kismet:  A Sociable Robot
Starlogo: Programmable modelling environment
Kenneth Ford et al., eds., Android Epistemology  [Review]
Engines of Creation, ch. 5
Kismet:  A Sociable Robot
KurzweilAI.Net

Truth

Truthmakers: The Correspondence Theory of Truth
What is truth?
TRUTH AND CORRESPONDENCE
BOOK OF INSTRUMENTS: DEFINITION AND CRITERION IN THEORIES OF TRUTH

Intellectual Property

John Perry Barlow, Selling Wine without Bottles
James Gleick. Patently Absurd. New York Times magazine. Sunday, March 12,
The League for Programming Freedom
The Software Patent Institute
Thompson, Concepts of Property and the Biotechnology Debate
Shelly Warwick, Is Copyright Ethical? An Examination of the Theories, Laws and Practices Regarding the Private Ownership of Intellectual Work in the United States
Hettinger, Justifying Intellectual Property (JSTOR)
Lynn Sharp Paine, Trade Secrets and the Justification of Intellectual Property: A Comment on Hettinger,  20 PHIL. & PUB. AFF. 247, 251-52 (1991)(JSTOR)
Richard Stallings, The Right to Read
Computer Ethics
Intellectual Property Issues from Negativland
Paul Starr, The Electronic Commons
Encryption, Source Code, and the First Amendment  Robert Post
(distinguishes use of source code to convey ideas to an audience vs. use of source code to run a computer; encryption as potentially protected speech)
White-Smith Music Publ’g Co. v. Apollo Co., 209 U.S. 1, 18-20 (1908) (Holmes, J., concurring).
Copyright Act of Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 320, 33 Stat. 1075.
Lawrence Lessig, The Limits in Open Code:  Regulatory Standards and the Future of the Net
John Perry Barlow, The Economy of Ideas, Wired, Mar. 1994.
Sony v. Betamax, 464 U.S. 417 (1984)
Junger v. Daley (6th Cir. 2000) 209 F.3d 481 (DeCSS; source code is speech)

Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Andrew L. Shapiro, The Control Revolution How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know
Richard Stim. Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights. Albany, New York: Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1994.

eBook controversy

Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 1998

Complaint against Sklyarov
Lawrence Lessig, Jail Time in the Digital Age
   Argues that DMCA allows copyright owners to define their own level of protection, violating fair use.
Richard M. Smith, Digital Copyright Act Harms Research
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant:  Free Software and the Death of Copyright
The spread of the Linux operating system kernel has directed attention at the free software movement. This paper shows why free software, far from being a marginal participant in the commercial software market, is the vital first step in the withering away of the intellectual property system.
James Boyle, A Politics of Intellectual Property
Eddan Elizafon Katz, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY A. COPYRIGHT 3. DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT a) ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION PROVISIONS: RealNetworks, Inc. v. Streambox, Inc. & Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes (2001)(Lexis-Nexis) - History of DMCA and cases decided
World Intellectual Property Organization
Brad Templeton, Ten Copyright Myths
John Perry Barlow, Coming into the Country
Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age
Technorealism

Censorship

ACLU, Freedom of Expression
Banning newsgroups at CMU in 1994
The Great Cyberporn Scare of 1995
The Communications Decency Act of 1996

First Amendment - background

Schenck v. U.S., 249 U.S. 47 (1919)
Abrams v. U.S., 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)
Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969)
FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978)
Sable Communications v. FCC, 492 U.S. 115 (1989)
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)
Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323 (1974)

Privacy

Wired - Privacy Matters - news on privacy
Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, "The Right to Privacy" (1890)
Who's Watching You?
Stalkers' Home Page
Privacy Journal
Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a
Privacy Foundation
Smith, Robert Ellis, Ben Franklin's Web Site:  Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet
David Brin, The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy
and Freedom?
Floridians Mock Cop Cams
Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, The Right to Privacy.

Hacking

Peter J. Denning (editor), Computers Under Attack: Intruders, Worms, and Viruses, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990.

Katie Hafner and John Markoff, Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Tsutomu Shimomura and John Markoff, Take-Down: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick,  New York: Hyperion, 1996.
John Perry Barlow,  Crime and Puzzlement: Desperados of the DataSphere
Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo’s Egg
Clifford Stoll, High-Tech Heretic


Law:  General

Larry Lessig, The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach
Cathy E. Cretsinger & Peter S. Menell, ANNUAL REVIEW OF LAW AND TECHNOLOGY: FOREWORD
How to Govern Cyberspace: Frontier Justice or Legal Precedent?
 

Law: Cases

ACLU v. Reno, 1996
Reno v. ACLU, 1997
Zeran v. AOL
Doe v. AOL (Florida Supreme Court)
Whalen v. Roe, 429 US 589 (1977).
US West v. FCC (10th Cir. 1999).

Books

TECHNOPOLY Neil Postman
BIOLOGY AS IDEOLOGY: THE CASE OF DNA Richard Lewontin
Brian Tokar, Redesigning Life?  The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering
Elizabeth Neill, Rites of Privacy and the Privacy Trade

Fiction
W. Gibson, Neuromancer
L. Nagata, Tech Heaven
Neal Stephenson, Diamond Age
Linda Nagata, The Bohr Maker
Greg Bear, Blood Music
Dann and Duzois, Nanotech, a collection of short stories including:
Greg Egan, Axiomatic
Nancy Kress, Margin of Error
Kathleen Goonan Sunflowers
Paul DiFilippo, Any Major Dude
Wired Life - book review

Courses

Table of Contents Volume 17 Number 1 and 2 : Winter/Spring 1997
The Center for the Study of Technology and Society
Information Technology Policy course at the University of Maryland
Systems and Self: Home Page
STS 101/E 130: Science, Technology and Society syllabus
Yale CS180 Syllabus
MIT 6.805/6.806/STS085: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier
Cyberlaw Fall 1999: Law 276.1 Boalt Hall
 
 

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