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A Sara Baase, A Gift ofF ire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing (Upper Saddle River, NJ: PrenticeHall, Inc., 1997, ix + 382 pages, ISBN: 0-13-458779-0) Reviewed by Joseph S. Fulda 701 Igkst 177th Street, #21 New Drk, NY l O033, U.S.A. mailto:fidda@acm.org http://www.cdfi.org/eight,htrnl Gifi of Fire is an extraordinary work by an extraordinarily gifted mind. It is at once a textbook and a scholarly treatise. Its author has read everything, but modestly displays her erudition only as needed. The text comes alive with vignettes, historical asides, anecdotes, and just-right quotations garnered from the scholarly, trade, popular, and classical literature, as well as from reports by journalists and all sorts of on-line fora. The writing is elegant and graceful, the conclusions follow from the premises, and everything is in its right order. What it must have taken to compile a treatise this magisterial is difficult to imagine. Certainly it is far beyond anything I have the power to produce and I am in awe of her achievement in fastening together just about every issue in the panoply of technology and society into a tale that enriches, enlightens, and entertains. The topics are so varied that there is

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Sara Baase, A Gift of Fire : Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing

Fulda, Joseph S.
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society , Volume 30 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 2000

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