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The Growth of Computing and Cyberspace
In 1965 Gordon E. ... When the average person can put a supercomputer (a gigaflop processor) on her desktop at moderate price, impressive computational possibilities are no longer relegated just to the super rich. ... Cyberspace is no longer just a black and white engineering world but a colorful and diverse stage for human interaction. ... Finally, I want to suggest how justice might get a start in cyberspace. ... Just as freedom is necessary for knowledge and happiness so abilities, resources, and opportunities are necessary for the expression of freedom. ... Obviously, dangers exist in the cyberspace marketplace of goods and services just as elsewhere. ... Buyers must be sophisticated consumers of products and services just as they must be sophisticated consumers of ideas. ... Ethics in cyberspace may not be everybodys prime concern. ... How can justice prevail in cyberspace?
The Power Problem: Because the web is such an increasingly powerful resource some individuals, corporations, and nations seek to monopolize or control aspects of cyberspace. ... The power wars over who will be master of the web have only just begun. ... "If one can be invisible in cyberspace, why be ethical? ... The bidding was stopped and a spokesperson said afterwards, "It is illegal to sell a body, an unborn baby or a body part on eBay just as it is in the land-based world." I would emphasize further that cyberspace is always physical and is already part of the "land-based world".
Freedom in the Defense of Justice
I have mentioned four considerations that threaten the existence of justice in cyberspace. ... How can justice in cyberspace be generated and maintained? There is no cybergovernment that rules cyberspace. ... What gives me hope that justice will triumph is the hyperliberty that cyberspace offers individuals. People want the advantages of cyberspace and need protection from harm. ...
Outside of cyberspace people are usually closely associated with local groups, but on the internet people are free to roam and to associate with other groups. ... People want to live in a just social settings. ... If just social arrangements appear on the internet, people will be drawn to them. When the social arrangements cease to be just, people can use the internet to notify others and people are free to take their social and economic activities elsewhere. ... Freedom makes it own way in cyberspace. ... It enhances liberty like nothing else, and it is precisely the enhanced individual liberty that provides the most promise in making and keeping cyberspace just.
Approximate Word count = 3942
Approximate Pages = 15.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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