Critical Mass : A Primer for Living with the Future

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Foreward	p. v
Contents	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Circle of Life: From Steampunk to Cyberpunk, It's All Science Fiction Now	p. 6
The New Paper: Electronic Ink, Smart Paper, and the Furoshiki	p. 14
Is the Document Read? Wither Literacy?	p. 23
Meet Jane Jetson: FridgeFront Computing Gives Us Home Automation with Style	p. 34
Atoms to Bits: Will We Ever Make Money on the Web?	p. 39
The Last Keyboard: Voice Recognition, Voice Generation, and the Future of Interfaces	p. 45
Wearable Computing: Never Leave Home Without It	p. 51
Sex and the Single Netizen: Why Is Porn So Important?	p. 57
Lucasfilm and SKG: The End of the Military Industrial Complex as Innovator	p. 62
The Keys to the Kingdom: Cryptography, Privacy, and Your Personal Dataspace	p. 68
Are We There Yet? GPS Technology and Modern Life	p. 78
Cable and Wireless: The TV Revolution	p. 87
Telephones and Pagers: Reach Out and Touch Some Data	p. 97
Mom! My Homework Won't Download! Education Comes of Age	p. 106
The New Post: Email Becomes the Killer App of the Internet	p. 113
Your Legislator Will Vid You Now: The Future of Politics	p. 121
Computers and Medicine: Hippocratic Art becomes Marketing Artifice	p. 126
Digital Reflection: The Movement Online	p. 138
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