CS 485: Computers in Society
Readings
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Illinois Institute of Technology
Contents
- Introduction to Cyberspace
- The Economy and Computing
- Computers and the Workplace
- Education and Social Interaction
- Ethics and Law in Cyberspace
- The Risks of Technology
- Computers and Privacy
- It's a Small, Small World
- Cyber Horizons
- Links to Related Material
Shock
Wave (Anti) Warrior:
interview with Alvin Toeffler, from HotWired
Society, Cyberspace,
and the Future:
Report of an Exploratory Aspen Workshop Prepared by Bruce Murray, California
Institute of Technology
WELCOME
TO CYBERSPACE
Spring 1995; BY PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT, Time
Magazine Special Issue
Is
Cyberspace Destroying Society?
May 30, 1995; an online conference with Sven Birkerts from Atlantic
Monthly Online
Digital
Cash and Monetary Freedom: White Paper
Digital
Cash and Monetary Freedom: Article
April, 1995; by Jon W. Matonis, PowerGrid
Journal version 1.01
THE
FUTURE OF MONEY
6/12/95; By Kelley Holland and Amy Cortese, Business Week
JUST
CLICK TO BUY
Spring 1995; BY JANICE CASTRO, Time
Magazine Special Issue
The economic
consequences of information technologies
7/95; Conjoncture,
Banque Paribus Newsletter
A
blinding Glimpse of the Obvious goes unseen
March/April 1996; By Jeffrey Balash, Educom
Review
THE
AGE OF THE "ROAD WARRIOR"
Spring 1995; BY LEON JAROFF, Time
Magazine Special Issue
The
Declining Middle
July 1983; Bob Kuttner, Atlantic
Monthly
Repetitive Strain
Injuries - The Hidden Cost of Computing
Jan. 28, 1996; Andrew B. King, webreference.com
Closing
the Windows on Opportunity
March/April 1995; By Norman Coombs, Educom
Review
This
is Not a Paper
November 1995; Nicholas Constantine Burbules and Bertram C. Bruce,
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER
The
Learning Revolution
Spring 1995; BY CLAUDIA WALLIS, Time
Magazine Special Issue
Getting
the Government We Deserve Reinventing Government By Going Beyond
the Beltway
March/April 1996; By Laurence Peters, Educom
Review
Cyber-Cops:
Angels on the Net Curtis Sliwa Interview
January/February 1996; By Educom Review Staff; Educom
Review
Logged
On or Left Out? (Special Report: Women in Computing)
January 21, 1996; multiple authors, the Sacramento
Bee
Dirty
bits, naughty bytes
August 26, 1996; By Joseph R. Garber, Forbes
Internet, Free Speech
and Industry Self-Regulation
November 1995; A report prepared by The
Information Technology Association of America Task Force on Internet
Use
Protecting
free expression in Electronic Communications
May/June 1996; By Robert M. O'Neil, Educom
Review
SJ Games versus the Secret
Service
Steve Jackson Games
CYBERLAW REPORT
ON THE SJ GAMES CASE
4/93; CyberLaw
It
Doesn't Fit: The Dilemma of Computer Software and Patent/Copyright Law
May 1996; by Douglas C. Derrick, E
Law - Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law
To Copy or Not to Copy
brochure from the
Software Publishers Association
Legal Implications of Safety Failures in Software Based Products
by Ian J Lloyd and Moira J Simpson, Centre for Law, Computers and Technology,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
- Optional Reading...
- The
Hacker Crackdown (continuation of the book is at the bottom of each
page...)
- January 1, 1994; by Bruce Sterling
Feasting
on the giant peach: will the Internet collapse?
August 26, 1996; By George Gilder, featured in Forbes
ASAP
Hack Attack
June 3, 1996; Edited By Gary Andrew Poole, featured in Forbes
ASAP
Waiting
for 01-01-00
January-February 1995; by Bryan Hayes, American
Scientist
The Year 2000 Software
Conversion: Issues and Observations
January 1996; A White Paper prepared by The
Information Technology Association of America
ONWARD
CYBER SOLDIERS The U.S. may soon wage war by mouse, keyboard
and computer virus
August 21, 1995; BY DOUGLAS WALLER WASHINGTON, Time
Magazine
KEYS
TO THE KINGDOM
Spring 1995; BY MIKE GODWIN, Time
Magazine Special Issue
SPIES
IN CYBERSPACE
March 20, 1995; BY DOUGLAS WALLER, Time
Magazine
THE
COMPUTERS HAVE EYES how private is private in the digital age?
February 1996; interview with Andre Bacard, Playboy Magazine
UNMASKED
ON THE NET The Finns raid a computer that ferries anonymous messages
March 6, 1995; BY JOSHUA QUITTNER, Time
Magazine
Japan and the Net
By Howard Rheingold, Chapter Eight of
The Virtual Community
COMPUTING IN SOUTH AFRICA: AN END TO APARTNESS?
February 1994; by Sy Goodman, Communications of the ACM
It's a Wired, Wired World
Spring 1995; BY JAMES O. JACKSON, Time
Magazine Special Edition
Gene Genie
by Thomas A. Bass, on HotWired
The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000
(Executive Summary)
1996; National Academy of Sciences
Quantum Teleportation
1995; IBM Research Report
THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR BUSINESS
December 13, 1995; speech by Craig R. Barrett, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer, Intel Corporation, at the University of California at Davis
Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing
February 1996; Wired Interview by Gary Wolf;
Wired Magazine
Computers and
Society Articles Collection Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Links to Sources of
Computers and Society Information Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Internet Resources for the Study of Communications Princeton University
Courses in Social Issues of Computing California State University, Long Beach
National Academy
Press Reading Room: Computer Science (Online books)
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