Digital freedom : how much can you handle?
In Digital Freedom, N.D. Batra explores the tension between the boundlessness of the Internet and the boundaries of the marketplace, as well as the resulting impact on human expression, privacy, and social controls. This book is an exploration of and a meditation on the question: How much freedom does a person need? This question evokes Tolstoy's parable, "How much land does a man need?" Is individual freedom an acquired taste, much like one's love for symphony orchestra? Or, is it a necessity? Digital Freedom explores this issue and its far-reaching implications - including surveillance, intellectual property, and copyright - from the perspective of an evolutionary, self-organizing social system. This fascinating system both creates and assimilates innovations and, in the process, undergoes reorganization and renewal
xii, 265 pages ; 22 cm
9780742555730, 9780742555747, 0742555739, 0742555747
122423867
Preface
Introduction
Scanning digital horizons
Changing view of privacy
Surveillance in cyberspace
How the marketplace shapes creativity
Free expression in the digital age
How does the ring of freedom sound to you?
Notes
Index
About the author