[108116] in Cypherpunks
Re: Intel's Master Plan - 'Wired for Management'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vogt)
Fri Feb 5 03:43:58 1999
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 09:30:16 +0100
From: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
Richard Hornbeck wrote:
> I agree. It is interesting to note that Intel sees the world as made up of
> computers, and not customers. It doesn't seem to realize that most private
> individuals (customers) have no need to be constantly linked together,
> especially when this linkage enables unknown entities to snoop around their
> computer and potentially cause them injury.
snooping around my computer is one thing. but imagine the future: your
house is wired, from tv to phone to the doorbell, everything is
electronically controlled. that's not scifi, I know a few people who
already have part of this set up in their homes (and it IS convenient
when the room temperature rises a few degrees half an hour before you
get up).
there's a deep secret in 1984 - the tv is the device of surveilance. the
most common, most usual device. not something mysterious and secretive.
