Not long ago, civil libertarians looked to cyberspace as the utopia of ultimate freedom, beyond the reach of restrictive technologies and government regulators.Today, that dream may be fading with the hyper-speed of Internet time.
Leading-edge software offers intellectual property protection as the killer app for content owners. But will it cause resentment among consumers unaccustomed to surfing in handcuffs?
Free turns to fee as companies begin to charge for content and services. Will gated Internet communities bring a segregation of information?
Your mobile phone is a potential gold mine for marketers: It can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like.
Totalitarianism. Urban pathology. The death of creativity. These are the fears that keep John Perry Barlow, co-founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation, awake at night.
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