Author : Mark Helprin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0061733113
Present an argument in defense of private property in the age of digital culture, sharing observations about how significant differences in generation values has compromised ownership rights and copyright protections.
Author : Berin Szoka
Publisher : TechFreedom
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0983820600
Author : Charles R. Kesler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442213353
Over the past 10 years, the Claremont Review of Books has become one of the preeminent conservative magazines in the United States, offering bold arguments for a reinvigorated conservatism that draws upon the timeless principles of the American Founding and applies them to the moral and political problems we face today. With essays by the likes of William F. Buckley, Jr., Christopher Hitchens, Richard Brookheiser, James Q. Wilson, Allen C. Guelzo, Victor Davis Hanson, Ross Douthat, and many others, this collection surveys the range of issues addressed in the Claremont Review of Books first decade, from the conservative critique of American progressivism to foreign policy, politics, history, and culture. Liberally illustrated with art director Elliot Banfield's popular cartoons, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness provides the magazine's many devotees with a treasured keepsake of a tumultuous decade and will be of interest to all those who care about American politics and culture. Among the contributors are Hadley Arkes, Martha Bayles, the late William F. Buckley, Jr., Paul Cantor, James Ceaser, Joseph Epstein, Christopher Flannery, Harvey Mansfield, Wilfred McClay, Cheryl Miller, the late Jaroslav Pelikan, Joseph Tartakovsky, Michael Uhlmann, Algis Valiunas, William Voegeli, and the late James Q. Wilson.
Author : Greg Kot
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 1416547312
Tells the story of how the laptop generation created a new grassroots music industry, with the fans and bands rather than the corporations in charge.
Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1803824190
Digital Humanism explores how Humanism can help us to critically understand how digital technologies shape society and humanity, providing an introduction to Humanism in the digital age.
Author : Isabelle Stengers
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781785420092
This book is addressed to everyone who is struggling and experimenting today, to everyone who is a true contemporary of what Stengers dares to call "the intrusion of Gaia," this "nature" that has left behind its traditional role and now has the power to question us all. In Catastrophic Times is neither a book of prophecy nor a survival guide. Here, Stengers reminds us that it falls to us to experiment with the apparatuses that make us capable of surviving without sinking into barbarism, to create what nourishes trust where panicked impotence threatens.
Author : Gerard Goggin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1077 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1317607643
The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories brings together research on the diverse Internet histories that have evolved in different regions, language cultures and social contexts across the globe. While the Internet is now in its fifth decade, the understanding and formulation of its histories outside of an anglophone framework is still very much in its infancy. From Tunisia to Taiwan, this volume emphasizes the importance of understanding and formulating Internet histories outside of the anglophone case studies and theoretical paradigms that have thus far dominated academic scholarship on Internet history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the collection offers a variety of historical lenses on the development of the Internet: as a new communication technology seen in the context of older technologies; as a new form of sociality read alongside previous technologically mediated means of relating; and as a new media "vehicle" for the communication of content.
Author : Shao-yun Yang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0295746017
Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800–1127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis, “barbarism,” were not straightforward products of political change but had their own developmental logic based in two interrelated intellectual shifts among the literati elite: the emergence of Confucian ideological and intellectual orthodoxy and the rise of neo-Confucian (daoxue) philosophy. New discourses emphasized the fluidity of the Chinese-barbarian dichotomy, subverting the centrality of cultural or ritual practices to Chinese identity and redefining the essence of Chinese civilization and its purported superiority. The key issues at stake concerned the acceptability of intellectual pluralism in a Chinese society and the importance of Confucian moral values to the integrity and continuity of the Chinese state. Through close reading of the contexts and changing geopolitical realities in which new interpretations of identity emerged, this intellectual history engages with ongoing debates over relevance of the concepts of culture, nation, and ethnicity to premodern China.
Author : Adam Thierer
Publisher : Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1942951248
Will innovators be forced to seek the blessing of public officials before they develop and deploy new devices and services, or will they be generally left free to experiment with new technologies and business models? In this book, Adam Thierer argues that if the former disposition, “the precautionary principle,” trumps the latter, “permissionless innovation,” the result will be fewer services, lower-quality goods, higher prices, diminished economic growth, and a decline in the overall standard of living. When public policy is shaped by “precautionary principle” reasoning, it poses a serious threat to technological progress, economic entrepreneurialism, and long-run prosperity. By contrast, permissionless innovation has fueled the success of the Internet and much of the modern tech economy in recent years, and it is set to power the next great industrial revolution—if we let it.
Author : Richard Spinello
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1449654029
Revised and updated to reflect new technologies in the field, the fourth edition of this popular text takes an in-depth look at the social costs and moral problems that have emerged by the ever expanding use of the Internet, and offers up-to-date legal and philosophical examinations of these issues. It focuses heavily on content control, free speech, intellectual property, and security while delving into new areas of blogging and social networking. Case studies throughout discuss real-world events and include coverage of numerous hot topics. In the process of exploring current issues, it identifies legal disputes that will likely set the standard for future cases. Instructor Resouces: -PowerPoint Lecture Outlines
