The main text for the course is my Future Imperfect, available on the web and as a published book. Chapter references refer to it. Lee Silver's Remaking Eden provides information for one topic. There will also be additional readings.

1/12: How to think about legal issues raised by new technologies. Chapters I, II

How technologies of surveilance, interception, etc. reduce the possibility of privacy, how encryption and related technologies increase it.

1/14 "Strong Privacy" [networking, encryption] Chapter III

1/21: The Transparent Society ch 1-3 [surveillance tech and its implications; one chapter is webbed, the book is on reserve.] Chapter V.

1/28: ECash Chapter VI, Contracts in Cyberspace Chapter VII , From China to Cyberspace

2/4: Open Source Software, Virtual firms and gift economies: Chapter IX
The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Homesteading the Noosphere

2/11: Technological protection Chapter VIII

2/16: Administrative Monday--class doesn't happen

2/18: Making Trouble Online: The Caltech (fake?) harassment case, Cornell case, et. al.

Chapters X, XI, High Tech law Enforcement Chapter XII

Intel v Randal Schwartz (webbed)
Chaos Club v Microsoft (webbed)
"An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control" (webbed)

2/25: Human Reproductive Technology: Chapter XIII
Remaking Eden by Lee Silver

3/1-3/6: Spring break

3/11: Life Extension and Cryonic Suspension (see links) Ch XVII

3/18: Other biotech issues, Ch XV

3/25: Mind drugs: Ch XVI

Important technologies that may (or may not) develop during the first half of the next century.

4/1:Uplifted Animals [Note Change in Syllabus]

4/8: Nanotechnology. Ch XVIII [Note Change in Syllabus]

4/15:Artificial Intelligence (Readings from The Age of Spiritual Machines by Kurzweil) Ch XIX and Deep VR Ch XX

4/22: Space Ch XXI

4/27: Ch XXII

Brin, David, The Transparent Society (selected chapters)
Friedman, David "From China to Cyberspace," Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy
Friedman, David, Future Imperfect.
Kurzweil, Ray The Age of Spiritual Machines (selected chapters)
Silver, Lee M. Remaking Eden : How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family
"An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control: Consultation version of working document prepared for European Parliament by its Directorate General for Research Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA)" (available online)
[Additional readings may be added]

Drexler, Eric, Engines of Creation
Friedman, David "A World of Strong Privacy," Philosophy and Public Policy
L. Lessig, "Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace."
Macintosh, Kerry, Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law
Maranto, Gina, The Quest for Perfection
Radin, Margaret, "Market-Inalienability", 100 Harv. L.Rev.1849 (1987)
Silver, Lee M. and Susan Remis Silver, "Confused Heritage and the Absurdity of Genetic "Ownership"," Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, 11,3 (Summer 1998).
Sterling, Bruce, The Hacker Crackdown [more fun than the others]