Weeks 3 and 4
Discussion: taxonomies -- biological and information theoretic. Read article in Wikipedia. Be sure to look up any vocabulary that may be unfamiliar.
Continuation: intellectual property, ethics and the law
Ubiquitous computing -- where aren't computers nowadays?
1996 Xerox PARC article Xerox PARC and Mark Weiser
Brief blurb from Science Channel
Corning: Day Made of Glass I and Corning: Day of Glass II
Kevin Kelly on the next 5000 days of the web (2007)
David Brin and one of his TED talks and an interview about the Transparent Society
Happy Birthday to you and copyright law
MP3s Spells and the Digital Economy
Marco Tempest: the magic of truth and lies (and iPods)
New: SCOTUS to hear
case on seed patents
(Companion article, not required reading): Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Produce Teratogenic Effects on Vertabrates by Impairing Retinoic Acid Signaling
Background:
Moore's law See also: Neil Trevett's presentation at DevCon5
the Semantic Web and Tim Berners-Lee