Rapid technological innovation is moving us towards a world of ubiquitous computing-a world in which we are surrounded by smart machines that are always on, always aware, and always monitoring us. These developments will create a world virtually without secrets in which information is widely available and analyzable worldwide. This environment will certainly affect business, government, and the individual alike, dramatically affecting the way organizations and individuals interact. This book explores the implications of the coming world and suggests and explores policy options that can protect individuals and organizations from exploitation and safeguard the implicit contract between employees, businesses, and society itself.

A Brief History of the Next 10 Years --XXI -- Chapter 1 Why Won't They Leave Me Alone? -- 1 -- Power of Names and Numbers -- 2 -- What Does It Take to Create a Universe? -- 3 -- Crossing Over -- 5 -- More Data, More Power, Few Controls -- 6 -- Unstoppable Momentum -- 8 -- By the Numbers -- 9 -- Where Did the Secrets Go? -- 10 -- Chapter 2 Streets Without Secrets -- 13 -- How the Future Worked in the Past -- 15 -- Authentication and the Exception Economy -- 17 -- How It Works in Tampa -- 19 -- What the Software Knows -- 21 -- Yes, Probably -- 22 -- Does It Work? -- 23 -- More Faces in View -- 25 -- Walk with Me -- 25 -- Keep Walking -- 27 -- Do the Math -- 28 -- Draw the Lines -- 31 -- So? -- 33 -- Eternally Vigilant? -- 34 -- Chapter 3 Homes Without Secrets -- 37 -- I Want This Why? -- 39 -- KISS -- 40 -- About Those Cameras -- 42 -- Data at Rest -- 44 -- Rules -- 45 -- We Are the Boundary -- 47 -- Chapter 4 Cars Without Secrets -- 49 -- Technical Stuff: Telematics -- 50 -- Who Hears What -- 51 -- More You Give, the More You Get -- 51 -- Who's Driving? -- 53 -- What the Owner Wants -- 54 -- Cars Without Secrets, Now -- 55 -- What the Car Knows -- 56 -- Suppose -- 58 -- Private by Intention -- 59 -- What Can Policy Do? -- 60 -- Call Me Any Time -- 62 -- Speaking of Enhancing Performance -- 63 -- Making the Drivers Smart -- 64 -- Smart Cars, Yes -- 65 -- It's Simple, Not -- 67 -- Hunter's First Law -- 68 -- Chapter 5 N Party System: The Era of the Network Army -- 69 -- How Scenarios Work -- 70 -- Scenarios for Social Structures -- 70 -- Quadrants -- 72 -- Engineered Society -- 73 -- Lost and Lonely -- 75 -- Conscientious Objectors -- 80 -- Network Army -- 81 -- I Repeat: The Network Is an Amplifier -- 84 -- Chapter 6 Software Without Secrets -- 85 -- Disruptive, Quite -- 86 -- Business Without Secrets -- 87 -- Interviewing Raymond -- 87 -- Hackers and Crackers -- 89 -- From Communities to Network Army -- 90 -- Open Source Is More Than Open Source -- 96 -- Yeah, It's a High-Performance Team -- 97 -- Is This Message Clear? -- 99 -- Medium and the Message -- 100 -- Why They Listen -- 101 -- Power Grabs, Not -- 101 -- Ideological Conflict and Corruption -- 102 -- Nemesis and the Network Army -- 104 -- Can I Be Your Enemy? -- 104 -- Generals Are Always Fighting the Last War -- 105 -- Message and the Medium, and the Audience for Linux -- 106 -- If You're Losing the Battles, Change the Battlefield -- 107 -- Free Stuff Kills Competitors, Not Markets -- 108 -- Why Not Just Let the Market Do Its Work? -- 109 -- Maybe Someone Can Be Convinced -- 110 -- How Did Things Get So Bad? -- 112 -- A Few Pointers for Engineered Society Generals -- 112 -- Hunter's Second Law -- 114 -- Chapter 7 Rise of the Mentat -- 115 -- Mentat Defined -- 115 -- Why Mentats? -- 122 -- Mentats Have (Hidden) Power -- 123 -- Mentats Provide Less Information -- 124 -- Network Mentat -- 124 -- Mentat Reviewer -- 126 -- Choose Your Mentat -- 126 -- Trust Matters -- 128 -- Mentats and the Law of Inertia -- 129 -- Mentats and I-Filters -- 130 -- Hunter's Second Law--Personal and Institutional Conflict -- 130 -- Breaking the Bubble -- 131 -- Would Breaking the Bubble Have Saved Cisco? -- 132 -- Reality Always Wins (in the World Without Secrets and Everywhere Else) -- 133 -- On the Interactions of Laws -- 133 -- Chapter 8 Distracted Consumers, Mentats, and Timothy McVeigh -- 135 -- Path of Least Resistance -- 136 -- It's Easier If You Don't Ask -- 137 -- So Why Look? -- 139 -- Did McVeigh Do It? -- 140 -- Necessary Knowledge Is That of What to Observe -- 142 -- What Do You See? -- 142 -- Chapter 9 In the Exception Economy, Be Exceptional -- 145 -- What Drives the Exception Economy? -- 147 -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Very Big (or Little) Number -- 156 -- Business Without Secrets -- 157 -- Business Is a Network -- 158 -- Art Is Exceptional, Objects Are Not -- 165 -- Chapter 10 Art Without Secrets -- 167 -- Who Wins and Who Loses? -- 167 -- Relationships Matter: The Fate of the Music Industry -- 170 -- Economics of Long-Playing Plastic -- 170 -- Yes, It Really Works Just Like That -- 174 -- Independents: They're Everywhere. Are They Dangerous? -- 177 -- What about the Relationship? -- 179 -- Strategies for Record Industry Viability -- 180 -- Strategy 1: Kill Digital Distribution -- 181 -- Strategy 2: Monopolize Bandwidth -- 186 -- Strategy 3: Prohibit Alternative Business Models -- 188 -- Summary: The Fate of Digital Objects -- 192 -- Power and Knowledge -- 192 -- Chapter 11 Crime Without Secrets -- 193 -- Buying In -- 194 -- Yeah, It's about Technology -- 195 -- Lessons -- 196 -- Plan B -- 197 -- What We Fear -- 198 -- It's Not the Transaction, It's the Database -- 199 -- Mass Victimization -- 200 -- Why Worry? -- 202 -- Chapter 12 War Without Secrets -- 203 -- Engineered Society Warfare and the Terrorist -- 205 -- Crime Is War, War Is Crime -- 208 -- Network-Centric Warfare -- 209 -- Crackers at War: Threat or Menace? -- 218 -- What's Potential and What's Real? -- 225 -- What to Do, Right Now -- 234 -- Chapter 13 Digital Pearl Harbor -- 245 -- On the Morning -- 247 -- What Happened after Pearl Harbor -- 250 -- A Pearl Harbor for the New Century -- 251 -- A Dream of Electronic Handcuffs -- 252 -- Under Observation -- 255 -- Watching Everything Is Not Knowing Everything -- 256 -- If Automated Surveillance Works, Whom Does It Work On? -- 257 -- Issue Is Control -- 259 -- Return of the Engineered Society -- 260 -- Who's Not on the Team? -- 261 -- Pearl Harbor in the Borderless World -- 262 -- Chapter 14 Last Secrets -- 265.