a ISBN 0-262-19418-X

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number HM851

b Item number .S74 1999

a Dewey Classification 306.4/6

a Personal name Stefik, Mark.

a Title The Internet edge :

b Remainder of title social, legal, and technological challenges for a networked world /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Mark Stefik.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Cambridge, Mass. :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc MIT Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc c1999.

a Extent xviii, 320 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 24 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index.

a Formatted contents note 1. The Internet Edge: Change and Connections -- 2. The Portable Network: Away from the Desktop and into the World -- 3. The Digital Wallet and the Copyright Box: The Coining Arms Race in Trusted Systems -- 4. The Bit and the Pendulum: Balancing the Interests of Stakeholders in Digital Publishing -- 5. Focusing the Light: Making Sense in the Information Explosion -- 6. The Next Knowledge Medium: Networks and Knowledge Ecologies -- 7. The Edge of Chaos: Coping with Rapid Change -- 8. The Digital Keyhole: Privacy Rights and Trusted Systems -- 9. Strangers in the Net: Access, Diversity, and Borders -- 10. Indistinguishable from Magic: The Real, the Magic, and the Virtual -- Epilogue: The Next Edge and Discovering Ourselves.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Internet

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Computers and civilization.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Information society.