Prologue

• 0.1 Background
• 0.2 Opportunities: computer applications
• 0.3 Risks: technological threats
• 0.4 Choices: challenges for society
• 0.5 How to use this book
• 0.6 A note to instructors

Part I Opportunities

1 Digital inclusion

• 1.1 Pioneers and visionaries
• 1.2 Access to the internet
• 1.3 Internet access across the world
• 1.4 Internet shutdowns
• 1.5 Inclusive design of technology
• 1.6 Gender issues
• 1.7 Technology for seniors
• 1.8 Summary
• 1.9 Key terms

2 Digital media and intellectual property

• 2.1 Pioneers and visionaries
• 2.2 Intellectual property: protection and fair use
• 2.3 Music
• 2.4 Movies
• 2.5 Mash-ups
• 2.6 Textbooks and research publications
• 2.7 Open access publications
• 2.8 Software patents
• 2.9 Open source software
• 2.10 Creative Commons licensing
• 2.11 Summary
• 2.12 Key Terms

3 Computers in education and learning

• 3.1 Pioneers and visionaries
• 3.2 Digital simulations and serious gaming
• 3.3 Presentation technology
• 3.4 Smart and flipped classrooms
• 3.5 Intelligent tutoring
• 3.6 Online learning
• 3.7 Massive open online courses (MOOCs)
• 3.8 Ubiquitous use of computers in schools
• 3.9 Summary
• 3.10 Key Terms

4 Computers in medicine and health care

• 4.1 Pioneers and visionaries
• 4.2 Online health information and online communities of care
• 4.3 Electronic medical records and personal health records
• 4.4 Medication data processing
• 4.5 Big data and infectious disease surveillance and modelling
• 4.6 Medical simulators
• 4.7 Artificial body parts and bionic people
• 4.8 Precision medicine
• 4.9 Neuroplasticity and brain training
• 4.10 Robot companions and caregivers for seniors
• 4.11 Summary
• 4.12 Key terms

5 Free speech, politics, and government

• 5.1 Visions, utopias, and dystopias
• 5.2 Free speech
• 5.3 Print, broadcast, and internet speech
• 5.4 Internet speech that draws censorship
• 5.5 Fake news, filter bubbles, and echo chambers
• 5.6 E-democracy
• 5.7 Citizen mobilization via social media
• 5.8 Campaigning with social media; big data for voter surveillance and targeting
• 5.9 E-Government
• 5.10 Summary
• 5.11 Key terms

6 Law and order, war and peace

• 6.1 Visions and nightmares
• 6.2 Use of social media by the police and in dealing with the police
• 6.3 Citizen mobilization via social media for regime change
• 6.4 Surveillance by government
• 6.5 Governmental restrictions of internet access; keeping the net open
• 6.6 Hacking another country’s elections and politicians
• 6.7 Cyberespionage, cyberterrorism, and cyberwarfare
• 6.8 Guided aerial weapons with no person aboard
• 6.9 Autonomous weapons and robot soldiers
• 6.10 Summary
• 6.11 Key terms

Part II Risks

7 Security

• 7.1 Visions and context
• 7.2 A security primer
• 7.3 Hackers
• 7.4 Cyber-criminals and large-scale system intrusions
• 7.5 Identity theft
• 7.6 Security in the digital world
• 7.7 Electronic voting machines
• 7.8 The legal response to cybercrime
• 7.9 What shall we do?
• 7.10 Summary
• 7.11 Key terms

8 Safety

• 8.1 Visions and context
• 8.2 Frustration, anger, and rage in internet access
• 8.3 Cyberbullying and revenge porn
• 8.4 Attention and distraction
• 8.5 Uncontrollable software development
• 8.6 Incomprehensible and incorrect software
• 8.7 Medical devices and safety
• 8.8 Industrial disasters
• 8.9 Autonomous vehicles
• 8.10 The environment
• 8.11 What shall we do?
• 8.12 Summary
• 8.13 Key terms

9 Privacy

• 9.1 Visions and context
• 9.2 A privacy primer
• 9.3 Government data collection
• 9.4 Consumer privacy
• 9.5 Health information
• 9.6 Personal information visible through social media
• 9.7 Surveillance everywhere
• 9.8 Recording, remembering, and forgetting
• 9.9 Confidential information, privacy for government, and whistleblowers
• 9.10 Privacy laws
• 9.11 What shall we do?
• 9.12 Summary
• 9.13 Key terms

Part III Choices

10 Automation, work, and jobs

• 10.1 Historical precedents and early warnings
• 10.2 Identifying job opportunities and the best employees
• 10.3 Monitoring workers for job performance
• 10.4 On-demand services in the gig economy
• 10.5 Automation and fears of unemployment
• 10.6 Agriculture and automation
• 10.7 Manufacturing and automation
• 10.8 Computers in service industries
• 10.9 The transformation of professions
• 10.10 The future of employment, jobs, and work
• 10.11 Our options
• 10.12 Summary
• 10.13 Key terms

11 Artificial intelligence, explanations, trust, responsibility, and justice

• 11.1 Visions and context
• 11.2 An AI Primer
• 11.3 AI advances, capabilities, and limits
• 11.4 What is intelligence?
• 11.5 Anthropomorphism, feelings, and empathy
• 11.6 How do we know what a computer knows and how it makes it decisions?
• 11.7 Trust
• 11.8 Accountability and responsibility
• 11.9 Fairness and justice
• 11.10 Our options
• 11.11 Summary
• 11.12 Key terms

12 Lifestyle

• 12.1 Visions and context
• 12.2 Connected
• 12.3 Too connected
• 12.4 Always connected: technology addiction and workaholism
• 12.5 The internet of things, voice assistants, and smart cities
• 12.6 Artificial reality
• 12.7 Pornography, online dating, and sex robots
• 12.8 Blockchain and the future of money
• 12.9 Corporate concentration; social and economic disruption
• 12.10 Our options
• 12.11 Summary
• 12.12 Key terms

13 Epilogue

• 13.1 Social issues
• 13.2 Policy/legal choices
• 13.3 Ethical/moral dilemmas
• 13.4 Moving forward

14 Afterword: Developments in autumn 2018

• 14.1 Digital inclusion
• 14.2 Digital media and intellectual property
• 14.3 Education and learning
• 14.4 Medicine and health care
• 14.5 Free speech, politics, and government
• 14.6 Law and order, war and peace
• 14.7 Security
• 14.8 Safety
• 14.9 Privacy
• 14.10 Automation, work, and jobs
• 14.11 AI
• 14.12 Lifestyle
• 14.13 Summary

Notes

Resources

Index