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.
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 specialising in
twentieth-century fiction and popular culture.
Praise for Chasing Shadows 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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