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
"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
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.
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
www.wired.com
www.slashdot.org
www.eff.org
www.dfc.org
www.technorealism.org
takeout
talk
Journals
Berkeley Law and Technology Journal
Ends
and Means