I have been asked to give some guidelines for review for the final examination.  The final will be comprehensive, so it is a good idea to go over the questions from the midterm.  However, there will be more emphasis on material covered since the final.

The net.wars book will be covered, but only with regard to the main points in each chapter.  We will not go into details.  I highlighted the main points in one of my lectures, notes from which are up on the WEB site.

Ben asked you to read chapters 11, 12 and 14 from his World Wide Brain manuscript, also Chapter 13 which is on his AI model.  However, you can read a shorter summary of this on his WEB site, as mentioned on our WEB site.

We also covered the last two chapters of Interface Culture since the midterm.

I have also recommended a lot of New York Times articles, but most of these were relevant to specific class presentations.  They certainly will not be covered in any detail on the exam, but it would be good to distill certain points from them, such as:
 
   How is the hacker culture evolving?  How does it differ from 10 or 15 years ago?
   What are some of the recent problems concerning censorship, particularly political censorship in Canada and China?
    What are the recent business strategies of amazon.com and America Online?
 
I also wrote the essay on Monopolies and Competition on the Internet to cover material that is important for the class, as well as for a sample term paper.  The thematic ideas for term papers which I posted on the WEB also are important as guidelines to the test.

I will have a few questions on the major points given in the group presentations.  These can be reviewed on the WEB also, most of the groups have posted their files.