Digital Needs: Contents

	Digital Needs: Contents		by Pat Gratton
	Created: 10/9/2001	Modified: 10/15/2001	Version: 1.0

Chapter 1: Introduction
–	Describes the intent of Digital Needs and compares it to other digital technology books.
–	Describes the approach and organization of Digital Needs.

Chapter 2: User Stories
–	Provides an intuitive understanding of the solutions described in later chapters through the stories of two users.

Chapter 3: Cyberspace
–	Pictures digital technology as generating new, cybernatural laws, and then considers the impact of these new laws on the commercial and legal systems.

Chapter 4: Hardware
–	Describes personal servers: hardware components used to provide a single, consistent interface to consumers.
–	Describes on person digics: personally carried computers, cell phones, music players, etc. that have been locally networked into a federated system and which are remotely networked and synchronized with personal servers, backup systems and other services.
–	Describes pervasive networking: the coordination of short range and long range, wired and wireless networks to provide transparent but secure access.

Chapter 5: Software
–	Considers ease of use as a general user requirement, and prescribes general methods for achieving it.
–	Describes Genii: software infrastructure designed to provide a single, consistent, verbal or textual control interface to users.

Chapter 6: Digital Goods
–	Considers the publication of digital goods (articles, books, music, video).
–	Describes the AVDS (Access Vendor Digistore) system, which combines technical components in a commercial and legal infrastructure, with the goal of providing a simple, durable and equitable approach to publishing digital goods.

Chapter 7: Digital Secrets
–	Extends the AVDS system for the purpose of maintaining personal, group, and corporate secrets.

Chapter 8: Cyber Filtering
–	Describes methods for filtering digital content for objectionable material.

Chapter 9: Cyberself Control
–	Considers the desire for privacy, and weighs it against the necessity of identity for commercial transactions and public safety.
–	Describes a system for restricting and prioritizing accessibility of the consumer.
–	Describes a system for managing personal information and access to it.
–	Describes a system for ensuring transparent transport and archiving of personal files.

Chapter 10: Digital Commons
–	Considers the use of standards to increase: ease of use, interoperability, durability and competition.
–	Considers the strengths and weaknesses of Open Source software, and how its weaknesses might be corrected.

Chapter 11: Civic Digics
–	Considers the need to safeguard the digital infrastructure against criminal and military attack.
–	Considers the tradeoff between privacy and public safety.

Chapter 12: Consumers Union
–	Considers mechanisms for consolidating individual and corporate consumer purchasing power in order to meet consumer requirements.

Chapter 13: Summary
–	Summarizes previous chapters.
–	Lists actions that consumers can take to ensure accomplishment of their requirements of digital technologies.