Science triumphs and technology races forward - yet wars rage, the majority of our fellow humans are starving, and we are governed by unworthy puppets.

The book Life Sentences for Hackers? offers insight on terrorism and democracy, the Internet and drugs, war and the state, intellectual property and the history of ideas, genes and game theory. It presents views that are at times technocratic and at times subversive, often both - and above all a perspective that is always bold, clever, and fresh.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]