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Berners-Lee, Tim. "The Founder's Message." 2001. "The Founder's Message." The Examined Life in the Digital Age. Forbes ASAP Big Issues Series. NY: John Wiley and Sons.

Brate, Adam. 2002. "Sharing the Source." Technomanifestoes: Visions from the Information Revolutionaries (New York: Texere).

Bush, Vannevar. 1945. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 176, No. 1.

Carlson, W. Bernard. 2001. "The Telephone as Political Instrument: Gardiner Hubbard and the Formation of the Middle Class in America, 1875-1880." Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes, eds. Michael Thad Allen and Gabrielle Hecht. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Ceruzzi, Paul. 1986. "An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985." Imagining Tomorrow, Joseph J. Corn, ed. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Castells, Manuel. 2001. "The Digital Divide in Global Perspective." The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society. New York: Oxford University Press.

Chester, Jeffrey and Gary Larson. 2002. "Something Old, Something New." The Nation, January 7/14.

Crockett, Green and Reinhard. 2002. "All Net All the Time." Business Week, April 2002.

DiBona, Chris, Sam Ockman, and Mark Stone, eds. 1999. "Introduction." Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates.

Foucault, Michel. 1977. "Panopticism." Discipline and Punish. New York: Pantheon Books.

Franck, Karen A. 2002. "When I Enter Virtual Reality, What Body Will I Leave Behind?" in Neil Spiller, Editor, Cyber_Reader. NY: Phaidon Press

Helprin, Mark. 2001. “The Acceleration of Tranquility.” The Examined Life in the Digital Age. Forbes ASAP Big Issues Series. NY: John Wiley and Sons.

Herz, J.C. 2002. "50,000,000 Star Warriors Can't Be Wrong." Wired 10.06 (June 2002).

Hillner, Jennifer and Jessie Scanlon. 2000. "Web Slingers." Wired 8.05 (May 2000).

Himanen, Pekka. 2001. “The Hacker Work Ethic”, "Money as a Motive", “The Academy and the Monastery”, “From Netiquette to a Nethic,” "Endnotes." The Hacker Ethic. A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business. NY; Random House.

Hurley, Deborah. 1999. "Security and Privacy Laws: The showstoppers of the Global Information Society." in Anne Leer, ed., Masters of the Wired World: Cyberspace Speaks Out. London: Financial Times/ Pitman.

Gates, William Henry III. 1976. "An Open Letter to Hobbyists." February 3.

Gordon, "Expressionism."

Ierley, Merritt. 2002. Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold. NY: Clarkson Potter. (Prologue) (Telegraph) (Telephone) (Radio) (Television)

Joy, William. 2000. "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us." Wired 8.04 (April 2000).

Koerner, Brendan. 2002. "How to Disappear." Wired 10.07 (July 2002).

Lessig, Lawrence. 1999. “Privacy.” Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. NY; Basic Books.

Marinetti, F. J. "Manifesto of the Future."

Mitchell, William J. 2000. “Electronic Agoras” and "Soft Cities." City of Bits. Space, Place, and the Infobahn. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Penenberg, Adam L. 2001. "The Surveillance Society." Wired 9.12 (December 2001).

Postrel, Virginia. 2001. "Mine Eyes Deceive Me: What is True in the Digital Age?" The Examined Life in the Digital Age. Forbes ASAP Big Issues Series. NY: John Wiley and Sons.

Rheingold, Howard. 1991. "." Virtual Reality. New York: Summit Books.

Rheingold, Howard. 2000. "Machines to Think With" and "The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker." Tools For Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Seely Brown, John and Paul Duguid. 2001. "Don't Count Society Out." In Peter Denning, Ed., The Invisible Future. NY: McGraw-Hill.

Segal, Howard. 1986. "The Technological Utopians." Imagining Tomorrow, Joseph J. Corn, ed. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Shapiro, Carl and Hal R. Varian. 1999. "The Information Economy." Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Starr, Paul. 2002. "The Great Telecom Implosion." The American Prospect, September 9.

Stephenson, Neal. 1992. Selection from Snow Crash. NY: Bantam Books.

Sudo, Philip Toshio. 1999. Selection from Zen Computer. New York: Simon & Schuster.

"Take This Media... Please!" 2002. The Nation, January 7/14.

"The Big Ten." 2002. The Nation, January 7/14.

Valenti, Jack. 2002. "If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don't Own Anything." "Protecting Content in a Digital Age--Promoting Broadband and the Digital Television Transition," Hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 107th Congress. February 28.

Werbach, Kevin. 2002. "Monster Mesh: Decentralized Wireless Broadband." The Feature. January 21.

Wolfe, Tom. 2001. "Digibabble." The Examined Life in the Digital Age. Forbes ASAP Big Issues Series. NY: John Wiley and Sons.