Name: Chasing Shadows : Visions of Our Coming Transparent World
Author: David Brin, Bruce Sterling, James Gunn, Vernor Vinge, Neal Stephenson, Gregory Benford, Robert J. Sawyer, James Morrow, William Gibson, Damon Knight, Robert Silverberg, Jack McDevitt, David Walton, David Ramirez, John Perry Barlow, R.C. FitzPatrick, Jack Skillingstead, Scott Sigler, Stephen Gaskell, Vylar Kaftan, Karl Schroeder, Brenda Cooper, Ann Goonan, Nancy Fulda, Aliette de Bodard, Cat Rambo, Ramez Naam, and many others, et al, various authors, VV.AA, AA.VV

David Brin, Hugo award-winning author of The Uplift War, presents a collection of short stories and essays by other science fiction luminaries. As we debate Internet privacy, revenge porn, the NSA, and Edward Snowden, cameras get smaller, faster, and more numerous. Has Orwell's Big Brother finally come to pass? Or have we become a global society of thousands of Little Brotherswatching, judging, and reporting on one another? Partnering with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and inspired by Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society, noted author and futurist David Brin and scholar Stephen Potts have compiled essays and short stories from writers such as Robert J. Sawyer, James Morrow, William Gibson, Damon Knight, Jack McDevitt, and many others to examine the benefits and pitfalls of technologic transparency in all its permutations. Sign up My Books Browse ▾ Community ▾ Join Goodreads and meet your next favorite book! Sign Up Now Book details Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World by David Brin (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.60 68 ratings 8 reviews Want to Read Rate Write a review David Brin, Hugo award-winning author of The Uplift War, presents a collection of short stories and essays by other science fiction luminaries. As we debate Internet privacy, revenge porn, the NSA, and Edward Snowden, cameras get smaller, faster, and more numerous. Has Orwell's Big Brother finally come to pass? Or have we become a global society of thousands of Little Brothers—watching, judging, and reporting on one another? Partnering with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and inspired by Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society, noted author and futurist David Brin and scholar Stephen Potts have compiled essays and short stories from writers such as Robert J. Sawyer, James Morrow, William Gibson, Damon Knight, Jack McDevitt, and many others to examine the benefits and pitfalls of technologic transparency in all its permutations. CONTENT Introduction: Private Lives James Gunn AD JUSTITIAM PER LUCEM Mine, Yours, Ours Jack Skillingstead Insistence of Vision David Brin Planetbound Nancy Fulda The Right's Tough Robert J. Sawyer The Circuit Riders R.C. FitzPatrick The Werewolves of Maplewood James Morrow The Road to Oceania William Gibson SURVEILLANCE — SOUSVEILLANCE I See You Damon Knight Eyejacked David Walton FeastWar Vylar Kaftan Your Lying Eyes Jack McDevitt The Disaster Stack Vernor Vinge LIES AND PRIVATE LIVES First Presentation Aliette de Bodard AfterShift Memories David Ramirez Spew Neal Stephenson Private Life in Cyberspace John Perry Barlow BIG BROTHER, LITTLE BROTHER, VILLAGE Elderjoy Gregory Benford Street Life in the Emerald City Brenda Cooper The Eyes Have It Stephen W. Potts NO PLACE TO HIDE Preferences Cat Rambo Vectors Stephen Gaskell Public Domain Scott Sigler To See the Invisible Man Robert Silverberg The Disconnected Ramez Naam LOOKING BACK ... AND LOOKING UP Eminence Karl Schroeder Sport Kathleen Ann Goonan Elephant on Table Bruce Sterling A Tsunami of Light Afterword by David Brin. ==== [Reviews]: "Entertaining and provocative, and piercingly relevant for our own time."―Toronto Star “This anthology satisfies on many levels. . . . If we enter the transparent world with any kind of foreknowledge, it will be due to well-conceived and well-executed projects such as this one.”―Locus [Praise for David Brin's The Transparent Society]: “As you follow his argument for two-way social transparency, you realize your only hope is that he is right.” ―George B. Dyson, author of Darwin Among the Machines “Brin expounds upon his belief that people need to keep watch on snooping governments, employers, insurance companies, and so on. . . . In assessing the current state of affairs, Brin divulges a barrage of ways and means of monitoring electronic transmissions.” ―Science News "If enough people read Brin's book . . . then it may turn into a self-negating prophecy: a warning of dystopia that by virtue of the horror it paints helps avoid that horror. That was the function of George Orwell's 1984. That is an honorable role for anyone's book." ―J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley "David Brin's nonfiction marvel, The Transparent Society, is what Lewis Mumford or Thorstein Veblen might write, could they contemplate our increasingly webbed world and its prospects for social change. . . . Brin's book is full of imaginative, far-sighted concern for how fluid information is going to transform our civil society." ―William H. Calvin, neurophysiologist and author of How Brains Think.

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