[109095] in Cypherpunks
RE: Re: Someone taking photos of my house today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Mar 10 09:40:33 1999
In-Reply-To: <896C7C3540C3D111AB9F00805FA78CE20313FCDD@MSX11002>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:17:04 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 7:23 AM -0500 on 3/10/99, Brown, R Ken wrote:
> I don't know about "stole". It strike me that it has been kicking around sf
> in one guise or another for an awful long time as part of the discussion on
> the idea that "They" (or God) can see everything you are doing (as in
> "1984").
The "they" I'm talking about in particular is grandmas with videocam
headgear, as a metaphor for ubiquitous *private* surviellance in -- or not
in -- cooperation with the local authorities. *That's* what Platt talked
about with Brin as a premise for a novel he (Platt) was working on, and is
which Brin promptly turned into a novel ("Earth").
I'll leave Jeremey Bentham for some other state-school philosophy major to
deal with. :-).
Cheers,
RAH
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
