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Patent
A patent is a government grant giving an inventor the right to exclude others from making, selling, or using an invention for a fixed period of time. Despite the centuries-long history of patents, the evolution of new forms of media raises ...
- Art, Music, and Performance
- Business and Commerce
- http://Amazon.com
- http://MP3.com
- Business-to-Business
- Cookies
- Customer Relationship Management
- Digital Cash
- Disintermediation
- E-Commerce
- Harold Innis
- Internet Service Providers
- Jakob Nielsen
- Jeff Bezos
- Knowledge Management
- Local Area Network
- Margaret Whitman
- Metrics
- Napster
- Narrowcasting
- Personalization
- Peter Drucker
- Security
- Stephen M. Case
- Steven P. Jobs
- Telecommuting
- Trademark
- Video Conferencing
- William H. Gates, III
- Cyberculture
- “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”
- Neuromancer
- The New Hacker's Dictionary
- The Soul of a New Machine
- Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
- Allucquère Rosanne Stone
- Avatar
- Blog
- Bruce Sterling
- CommuniTree
- Convergence
- Cyberculture
- Cyberethics
- Cyberfeminism
- Cyberpunk
- Cyberspace
- Cyberwarfare
- Donna J. Haraway
- Electronic Civil Disobedience
- Electronic Democracy
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Emoticons
- Esther Dyson
- Gender and New Media
- Habitat
- Hacking, Cracking, and Phreaking
- Hacktivism
- Howard Rheingold
- Instant Messaging
- Interactvity
- John Perry Barlow
- Killer Application
- LambdaMOO
- Marshall McLuhan
- Meme
- Metrics
- Mitchell Kapor
- Nicholas Negroponte
- Online Journalism
- Peer-to-Peer
- Race and Ethnicity and New Media
- Sherry Turkle
- Virtual Community
- William Gibson
- Hacking
- 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
- The New Hacker's Dictionary
- CommuniTree
- Computer Emergency Response Team
- Copyleft
- Cyberculture
- Cyberethics
- Cyberwarfare
- DeCSS
- Electronic Civil Disobedience
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Encryption and Cryptography
- Eric Raymond
- Hacking, Cracking, and Phreaking
- Hacktivism
- John Perry Barlow
- Mitchell Kapor
- Richard Stallman
- Security
- Virus
- Legal Topics
- 2600: Hacker Quarterly
- Bernstein vs. the U.S. Department of State
- United States vs. Thomas
- Anonymity
- Carnivore
- Child Online Protection Act and Child Online Privacy Protection Act
- Communications Decency Act
- Copyleft
- Copyright
- DeCSS
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- Electronic Civil Disobedience
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Hacking, Cracking, and Phreaking
- Linking
- Napster
- Obscenity
- Pamela Samuelson
- Privacy
- Security
- Networks and Networking
- ARPANET
- BITNET
- Broadband
- Browser
- Bulletin Board Systems
- Cellular Telephony
- CommuniTree
- Community Networking
- Distributed Computing
- Firewall
- Freenet (Community Network)
- Freenet (File-Sharing Network)
- Internet
- Internet Appliances
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- Internet Relay Chat
- Internet Service Providers
- LISTSERV
- Local Area Network
- Marc Andreessen
- Markup Languages
- Minitel
- MUDs and MOOs
- Napster
- Newsgroups
- Peer-to-Peer
- PLATO
- Satellite Networks
- Short Messaging System
- Telephony
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Usability
- vBNS
- Videotex
- Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link’
- Wireless Application Protocol
- Wireless Networks
- World Wide Web
- Open-Source Software
- Organizations and Labs
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Computer Emergency Response Team
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- SIGGRAPH
- SRI International
- World Wide Web Consortium
- Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
- People
- Alan Kay
- Alan Turing
- Allucquère Rosanne Stone
- Anita Borg
- Bill Joy
- Brenda Laurel
- Brian Eno
- Bruce Sterling
- Claude Shannon
- Daniel Sandin
- Donna Hoffman
- Donna J. Haraway
- Douglas Englebart
- Edward Tufte
- Eric Raymond
- Esther Dyson
- George Lucas
- Hal Varian
- Hans Moravec
- Harold Innis
- Howard Rheingold
- Ivan Sutherland
- J. C. R. Licklider
- Jakob Nielsen
- Jaron Lanier
- Jeff Bezos
- John Carmack
- John Perry Barlow
- John von Neumann
- Kai Krause
- Laurie Anderson
- Lawrence Lessig
- Manuel Castells
- Marc Andreessen
- Margaret Whitman
- Marshall McLuhan
- Marvin Minsky
- Michael Joyce
- Mitchell Kapor
- Nam June Paik
- Nicholas Negroponte
- Pamela Samuelson
- Pattie Maes
- Peter Drucker
- Raymond Kurzweil
- Richard Stallman
- Robert Moog
- Rodney Brooks
- Seymour Papert
- Sherry Turkle
- Stephen M. Case
- Steven P. Jobs
- Stewart Brand
- Theodor Holm (Ted) Nelson
- Thomas DeFanti
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Vannevar Bush
- Vinton Cerf
- W. Daniel Hillis
- William Gibson
- William H. Gates, III
- Social Issues
- Access
- Anonymity
- Carnivore
- Cyberethics
- Cyberfeminism
- Cyberwarfare
- Digital Divide
- Disposal of Computers
- Education and Computers
- Electronic Civil Disobedience
- Electronic Democracy
- Encryption and Cryptography
- Gender and New Media
- Hacking, Cracking, and Phreaking
- Hacktivism
- Obscenity
- Patent
- Privacy
- Race and Ethnicity and New Media
- Security
- Spam
- Technological Determinism
- Universal Design
- Virtual Community
- Technology
- ARPANET
- Authoring Tools
- Bluetooth
- Broadband
- Browser
- Bulletin Board Systems
- Carnivore
- CAVE
- CD-R, CD-ROM, and DVD
- Cellular Telphony
- Chat
- Codec
- Compression
- Computer-Supported Collaborative Work
- Content Filtering
- Cookies
- DeCSS
- Desktop Video
- Digital Asset Management
- Digital Subscriber Line
- Digital Television
- Distributed Computing
- Emulation
- Encryption and Cryptography
- Expert Systems
- Firewall
- Flash
- Graphical User Interface
- Habitat
- Hypermedia
- Hypertext
- Instant Messaging
- Interactive Television
- Internet
- Internet Appliances
- Internet Relay Chart
- Java
- Linux
- Local Area Network
- Markup Languages
- MIDI
- Minitel
- MP3
- MPEG
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Optical Character Recognition
- Optical Computing and Networking
- Peer-to-Peer
- Personal Digital Assistants
- Photoshop
- Qube
- Robotics
- Satellite Networks
- Shockwave
- Short Messaging System
- Sketchpad
- Software Agents
- Streaming Media
- Telecommuting
- Telephony
- vBNS
- Videoconferencing
- Videotex
- Virus
- Wireless Application Protocol
- Wireless Networks
- World Wide Web
- Writing
- “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”
- “As We May Think”
- “Man-Computer Symbiosis”
- “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”
- 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
- Neuromancer
- The New Hacker's Dictionary
- The Soul of a New Machine
- Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
- Bruce Sterling
- Cyberpunk
- Electronic Publishing
- Emoticons
- Hypertext
- Michael Joyce
- William Gibson
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