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| Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom |
 We live in a digital age, relying on our smartphones, IPods, and tablets to keep up with the rest of society. With Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom (available in July from Cambridge University Press, $24.99), Joshua A. T. Fairfield argues that we do not own anything, but instead we are the ones being owned.As a society, we risk becoming digital peasants, owned by software and advertising companies, not to mention overreaching governments. With the promise of ‘smart’ televisions, self-driving cars, and software-enabled homes, Fairfield has developed a new theory of property-as-information, showing how to make traditional property rules work online. By doing this, society can regain control of their technology... Continue reading: Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom from Cambridge University Press in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) - 
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