Is it OK to Do it to Julia?

[Terrance]

Its success caused the U.S. network CBS to pay a reported
$20 million for the rights to the show, which is to air from
July 6-Sept. 30. 

Before it started in Germany, media regulators had
threatened the show with a ban saying it offended human
dignity, which is protected by Germany's constitution.


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Germany-Big-Brother.html



In the early 1990's, even Luddites briefly had their day
again, whipping up fears about how computers would run our
lives, wrecking the possibilities for human intimacy and
making the future a mean, dismal place. 

Somewhere along the way, however, all that doom and gloom
drifted out to sea, pushed away not by blue-sky idealism but
by a temperate, practical faith in the idea that
machines are nothing to be afraid of, that we can use them
when, where and how we want to use them and that technology
might actually improve our lives. 


http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/index.html