Chasing Shadows
Visions of Our Coming Transparent World
Published on 1. April 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-7653-8259-7 (ISBN)
Description
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?
Noted author and futurist David Brin and scholar Stephen Potts, partnering with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and inspired by Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society, 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.
Noted author and futurist David Brin and scholar Stephen Potts, partnering with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and inspired by Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society, 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
St Martin's Press
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7653-8259-7 (9780765382597)
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DAVID BRIN is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant, and well-known author. His novels have been New York Times bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, among others. Brin lives near San Diego, California.
www.davidbrin.com
STEPHEN W. POTTS is a professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego, specializing in twentieth-century fiction and popular culture.
www.davidbrin.com
STEPHEN W. POTTS is a professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego, specializing in twentieth-century fiction and popular culture.