From Anarchy to Power by Wendy Grossman, New York University Press, $24.95, ISBN 08147314114
FROM schools rushing to get new computers to new laws on privacy, the boom and bust of dotcom companies to the hype of e-science, no one can deny that computers and the Internet are changing the world. Unfortunately, there’s a gap between the sorts of people who try to make the world better and the sorts of people who promote computers. Diplomats and computer industry leaders came together, for example, in a recent “Virtual Diplomacy” conference. They found that they had nothing in common.
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