Created: 10/9/2001
Modified: 10/15/2001
Version: 1.0
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Created: 10/9/2001 |
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Chapter 1: Introduction |
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Describes the intent of Digital Needs and compares it to other digital technology books. |
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Describes the approach and organization of Digital Needs. |
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Chapter 2: User Stories |
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Provides an intuitive understanding of the solutions described in later chapters through the stories of two users. |
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Chapter 3: Cyberspace |
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Pictures digital technology as generating new, cybernatural laws, and then considers the impact of these new laws on the commercial and legal systems. |
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Chapter 4: Hardware |
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Describes personal servers: hardware components used to provide a single, consistent interface to consumers. |
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Describes on person digics: personally carried computers, cell phones, music players, etc. that have been locally networked into a federated system and which are remotely networked and synchronized with personal servers, backup systems and other services. |
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Describes pervasive networking: the coordination of short range and long range, wired and wireless networks to provide transparent but secure access. |
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Chapter 5: Software |
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Considers ease of use as a general user requirement, and prescribes general methods for achieving it. |
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Describes Genii: software infrastructure designed to provide a single, consistent, verbal or textual control interface to users. |
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Chapter 6: Digital Goods |
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Considers the publication of digital goods (articles, books, music, video). |
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Describes the AVDS (Access Vendor Digistore) system, which combines technical components in a commercial and legal infrastructure, with the goal of providing a simple, durable and equitable approach to publishing digital goods. |
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Chapter 7: Digital Secrets |
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Extends the AVDS system for the purpose of maintaining personal, group, and corporate secrets. |
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Chapter 8: Cyber Filtering |
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Describes methods for filtering digital content for objectionable material. |
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Chapter 9: Cyberself Control |
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Considers the desire for privacy, and weighs it against the necessity of identity for commercial transactions and public safety. |
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Describes a system for restricting and prioritizing accessibility of the consumer. |
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Describes a system for managing personal information and access to it. |
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Describes a system for ensuring transparent transport and archiving of personal files. |
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Chapter 10: Digital Commons |
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Considers the use of standards to increase: ease of use, interoperability, durability and competition. |
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Considers the strengths and weaknesses of Open Source software, and how its weaknesses might be corrected. |
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Chapter 11: Civic Digics |
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Considers the need to safeguard the digital infrastructure against criminal and military attack. |
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Considers the tradeoff between privacy and public safety. |
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Chapter 12: Consumers Union |
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Considers mechanisms for consolidating individual and corporate consumer purchasing power in order to meet consumer requirements. |
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Chapter 13: Summary |
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Summarizes previous chapters. |
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Lists actions that consumers can take to ensure accomplishment of their requirements of digital technologies. |
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