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The Transparent Society (1998) is a non-fiction book by the science-fiction author David Brin in which he forecasts social transparency and some degree of erosion of privacy, as it is overtaken by low-cost surveillance, communication and database technology, and proposes new institutions and practices that he believes would provide benefits that would more than compensate for lost privacy.
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American science fiction author. He has won the Hugo , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Locus , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Campbell [ 6 ] and Nebula Awards . [ 7 ] His novel The Postman was adapted into a 1997 feature film starring Kevin Costner .
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Modern usage of the term radical transparency coincided with increased public use of Information communications technologies including the Internet. Kevin Kelly argued in 1994 that, “in the network era, openness wins, central control is lost.” [3]: p.116 David Brin's writing on The Transparent Society re-imagined the societal consequences of radical transparency remixing Orwell's 1984.
The Book Club of Detroit (c. 1957) Detroit's historic Scarab Club, where Book Club meetings were held for many years. The Book Club of Detroit, is a private club and society of bibliophiles in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1957, The Book Club of Detroit, is a club for book collectors. [1]
Foundation's Triumph (1999) is a science fiction novel by American writer David Brin, set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe. It is the third book of the Second Foundation trilogy, which was written after Asimov's death by three authors, authorized by the Asimov estate.
People who spend a lot of time on social media have noticed that the online world is increasingly creeping into the physical world. They’re attributing the phenomenon to “brain rot.”
"The Crystal Spheres" is a science fiction short story by American writer David Brin, originally published in the January 1984 issue of Analog and collected in The River of Time. [1] It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1985. [2] In it, Brin presents an explanation for the Fermi Paradox.