ABSTRACT
One of the great unquestioned myths about the new technology is that the area is free of ideological presuppositions. Indeed, for some, it is a pure escape from the dirty world of politics, while for others it is the higher learning itself, offering the ultimate critique of ideological politics. The early chapters of Computer Power and Human Reason remain unrivaled in the popular literature on explaining the heuristic properties of the computer, the logical foundations of computer power, how computers actually work, and the designing of universes through computer programming. The "arrogance" of the computer scientist is contrasted to the ambiguous but honest quest by humanists for a moral world. Every nation has the responsibility to rewrite its copyright legislation in light of the new technology: from the revolution in reprography to the efforts to protect new forms of intellectual property such as computer programs.
