General Reference

The Risks Digest (The ACM Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems.

Hans Moravec's ROBOT: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind

Artificial Intelligence People, Labs and Links

• Moravec's Homepage at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh PA.
• Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, Moravec's 1999 book web site.
• Reviews of Mind Children, also at Moravec's CMU web site.
• Rodney Brooks' Project Page, at the MIT AI Lab that Brooks directs.
• Artificial Intelligence Topics Page, a web site maintained by the AAAI.

  Related Journals and Articles (full-text access at Brown)
  

• International Journal of Robotics Research, a source for current robotics research.
• Robots: intelligence, versatility, adaptivity, Special Issue of Communications of the ACM (CACM), March 2002.
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, more current robotics research.

  ROBOT References
  

• "Measuring Performance, Part I," by Larry Carter (part of a Computer Architecture course at UCSD)
• The Writings of Charles Darwin at the British Library.
• Patterns, Programs, and Links for Conway's Game of Life, Paul Callahan's Page.

Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy

Arnold and His Texts:
• Matthew Arnold: An Overview (at VictorianWeb.org, this includes the 1869 edition of Culture and Anarchy)
• Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) (at utoronto.ca, this includes the 1882 edition of Culture and Anarchy)

  Related Articles

• Gross, John. "Culture and Anarchy and Us", Commentary, July 1994.
• Marcus, Steven. "Culture and Anarchy Today", Southern Review, Summer 1993.
• Said, Edward. "Nationalism, human rights, and interpretation", Raritan Winter 1993.
• Turner, Frederick. "Decline of the Best", The National Review, Setptember 26, 1994.

  Culture and Anarchy References

• The On-Line Books Page (at UPenn)

Michael Chorost's Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

Chorost & Post-Human Links
• Michael Chorost's Homepage
• N. Katherine Hayles's Homepage (at UCLA)
• "Materiality Has Always Been In Play": An Interview with N. Katherine Hayles (by Lisa Gitelman)
• "The Post-Human Condition" (site for Robert Pepperell's book)

Related articles and journals
• "Cochlear Implants" at Deaflinx.com.
• "The Power of Simulation: What Virtual Creatures Can Teach Us," by N. Katherine Hayles
• "All But War is Simulation: The Military Entertainment Complex," by Tim Lenoir (about computer graphics and the posthuman)
• "Treatment, enhancement, and the ethics of neurotherapeutics", by Paul Root Wolpe, in Brain and Cognition 50 (2002), pp. 387-395 (part of an issue devoted to the emerging field of "Neuroethics")

Rebuilt References
• "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," by A.M. Turing (reprint of the original 1950 article at oxy.edu)
• "Cybernetics" (at Principia Cybernetica Web)
• "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," by Claude E. Shannon (reprint of the original 1948 paper at Bell Labs)
• "An Overview of Information Theory" (at Lucent/Bell Labs)
• "The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge," by Jean-Francois Lyotard (excerpts at marxists.org)
• "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century", by Donna Haraway (excerpted from Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991)).

Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital

Negroponte Links
• Being Digital (Selected Bits) (at obs-us.com)
• The Media Lab at MIT
• "Beyond Digital" by Nicholas Negroponte (Wired, December 1998.
• ""From being digital to digital beings" by Nicholas Negroponte (IBM Systems Journal 2000, Vol. 39, Issue 3/4.
• The $100 Laptop Project

Related Journals and Articles
• "Peer-To-Peer Payoff", by Nicholas Negroponte (Information Week 10/18/2004.
• "Hack out the useless extras", by Nicholas Negroponte (New Scientist, 6/5/2004, Vol. 182, Issue 2450.
• Computers in Entertainment (a new ACM journal)
• Interactions (an ACM journal)
• Wired Magazine

Karl Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party

Marx and Marxism Links
• Marx Internet Library
• The 150th Anniversary of The Communist Manifesto, a site hosted by ...
• In Defence of Marxism, a site that includes a
• The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1888) (Samuel Moore translation at Google Scholar.
• Rethinking Marxism (a journal published by Taylor and Francis.
• "Marxism: the Next Big Idea," by Peter Taaffe, at marxist.net.
• "The Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries", by the Editors of Human Events, a conservative periodical.
• Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory, Jun99, Vol. 6 Issue 2. (issue devoted to the examination of "the problem of democracy from three different angles: the US political crisis; the impact of visual media on the public sphere; and the troubled legacy of the Communist Manifesto.

David Brin's The Transparent Society

Brin and Privacy Links
• David Brin's site
• Privacy in Cyberspace (at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School)
• "Legally Speaking: Is Information Property?" by Pamela Samuelson (from CACM, March 1991)
• "The Right to Privacy," by Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis (reprint of the 1890 Harvard Law Review article, at lawrence.edu)
• National OData Protection Laws By Country (at privacyexchange.org)
• Communications of the ACM, June 1984 (includes three articles on "computer matching")

Computer and Information Ethics Links
• ACM: Code of Ethics
• Online Ethics Center: Computers and Software (at onlineethics.org, Case Western Reserve University)
• Ethics in Computing (at North Carolina State University)
• Computer Ethics Resources on the WWW (at EthicsWeb.ca)
• "Information Ethics: On the Philosophical Foundation of Computer Ethics" (Luciano Floridi's site at Oxford)
• Computer Ethics Institute (at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC)
• Computer Ethics: Online Articles (at the Open Directory Project, dmoz.org)

  Related Journals and Articles

• Journal of Information, Law & Technology
• Ethics and Information Technology
• Ethics and Behavior
• IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
• Science, Technology and Human Values
• Technology in Society
• "The Internet, ethical values, and conceptual frameworks: an introduction to Cyberethics," by Richard Spinello and Herman T. Tavani (ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, Volume 31 , Issue 2 (June 2001))

Andrei Cherny's The Next Deal

Cherny and Digital Democracy Links
• Cherny's Next Deal site
• Center for Digital Democracy
• The Center for Democracy and Technology
• Institute for Politcs Democracy and the Internet (the home of the Democracy Online Project at gwu.edu)
• The Berkman Center for Internet and Society (at law.harvard.edu)
• The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at the University of Maryland
• Inside Politics: Your Guide to NAtional and State Politics (Brown Professor Darrell West's site)

Related journals and articles
• National Civic Review, (See esp. Fall 2001 issue devoted to issues of public life in the information age)
• The Economist (see the June 24, 2000 issue devoted to the impact of the Internet on governments)
• The Journal of Politics
• "The Internet," by Andrew Shapiro (from Foreign Policy, summer 1999)

Next Deal References
• The New Deal Network (a project devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal, now based at ilt.columbia.edu)
• The Jefferson Digital Archive (at virginia.edu)
• The Federalist Papers (online version at loc.gov)
• The Founders Constitution (the web version of the classic anthology by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, at uchicago.edu)
• The American Memory Project (at loc.gov)
• National Election Studies (at UMichigan)

Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion

Lippmann and Democracy Links
• "Isolation and Expansion," by Walter Lippmann 1952 essay at Vincent Ferraro's Cold War documents site at mtholyoke.edu)
• "Two Views of Public Opinion," by H. T. Reynolds (part of Posc 150 at udel.edu)
• The Lippmann-Dewey Debate (draft by Daniel Schugurensky, at oise.utoronto.edu)
• "Does Public Opinion Matter?", a lecture by David L. Rousseau (part of PS150 at upenn.edu, in Powerpoint)
• RealClear Politics, a web site with links to political commentaries and polling data.

Related Journals and Articles
• Public Opinion Quarterly
• International Journal of Public Opinion Research
• "Public Opinion: Obstacle, Partner or Scapegoat?," by Pierre Martin and Michel Fortmann (2001 article at irpp.org)

Public Opinion References
• Public Opinion, by Walter Lippmann (Project Guttenberg text)
• Plato's The Republic (Jowett translation at virginia.edu)
• William James site at Emory University (includes all of James' major texts, as well as lettersreviews)
• John Dewey's How We Think (1910 edition at brocku.ca)

Cass Sunstein's republic.com

Sunstein and republic.com Links
• Echo Chambers: Bush v. Gore, Impeachment, and Beyond, by Cass Sunstein (e-book followup to republic.com (2001).
• Sunstein's Page (at law.uchicago.edu>
• "The Future of Free Speech," by Cass Sunstein ("Looking Back" issue, March-April, 2001, at littlemag.com)
• "Is the Internet Good for Democracy?" (a forum featuring Sunstein's "The Daily We" and seven responses, at bostonreview.mit.edu)
• Princeton University Press Forum on republic.com
• "He's Got Mail": A Review of republic.com by James Fallows (from The New York Review of Books, March 14, 2002)
• Review of republic.com by Benjamin Barber (from Ethics, Volume 112, July 2002, Number 4)

Related Journals and Articles
• "Customized News Services and Extremist Enclaves in republic.com", by Mark S. Nadel. Stanford Law Review, vol. 54, (2002).
• National Civic Review
• International Review of Law, Computers & Technology
• International Journal of Law and Information Technology
• Berkeley Technology Law Journal
• Information & Communications Technology Law
• Behaviour & Information Technology
• British Journal of Social Psychology

republic.com References
• "Electronic Communities: Global Village or Cyberbalkans?" by Marshall Van Alstyne and Erik Brynjolfsson (pdf at web.mit.edu)
• "Privacy vs. Personalization, Part Two" by Kevin Mably (pdf at cyberdialogue.com)
• Noah Zatz' "Sidewalks in Cyberspace" (pdf of 1998 article at law.harvard.edu)
• United States Supreme Court Decisions (at Cornell's Legal Information Institute)

© 2005 Roger B. Blumberg