FSP 1.1

privacy, economics of design and beauty: books to read

Virginia Postrel talks with David Womack about her new book,
The Age of Look and Feel, a follow-up to the excellent
The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity,
Enterprise and Progress.

Gong Szeto interviews Michael Benedikt, author of For an Architecture of Reality,

Deconstructing the Kimbell, Cyberspace: First Steps, and the
forthcoming, A General Theory of Value.

Translucent Database by Peter Wayner.

A translucent database uses cryptographic methods like hash functions
and public key cryptography to mathematically protect information so that it
cannot be wrongly divulged -- not even to a crooked database administrator.

Translucent databases provide for unparalleled protection of sensitive
information, be that information personal, corporate, or academic.