"A collection of background essays prepared for the 1992 LITA president's program, 'Tools for knowing, environments for growing: visions of the potential of information technology for human development'"--Cover.

Pigs in cyberspace / Hans Moravec -- Free as air, free as water, free as knowledge / Bruce Sterling -- Gaia, freedom, and human nature : some ironies on the way to creating the network of the future / David Brin -- Letter from Moravec to Penrose / Hans Moravec -- Exotechnology : human efforts to evolve beyond human being / Mel Seesholtz -- The interface : slouching toward the future, or guess who's coming to dinner? / Milton T. Wolf -- The vertices of consciousness and the biology of a machine / Charles Henry -- Nanotechnology : the Library of Congress in your pocket / Roberta Wallis -- Truly intelligent computers / Charles W. Bailey, Jr. -- After the deluge : cyberpunk in the '80s and '90s / Tom Maddox -- Earth and the internet / Kathy Fladland. The transreal experience / William M. Lidwell & Kim J. Trull -- Transcendence at the interface : the architecture of cyborg utopia, or cyberspace utopoids as postmodern cargo cult / David Porush -- Virtual reality in medicine and medical education / Cheryl S. Pace -- Knowbot explorations in similarity space / Martin Halbert -- A day in the life of Mr. D / Eric Lease Morgan -- Symbiotic cyberspace libraries / Billy Barron -- A clear vision of the information / Howard L. Davidson -- Crime and punishment in cyberspace / Sonia Orin Lyris -- The canary on the computer / Steve Cisler -- Ethics and the electronic society / Florence Mason -- Books about the future / R. Bruce Miller.