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[Dave Monroe]

Y'all might be interested in ...

Brin, David.  The Transparent Society.
   New York: Persues, 1998.

... as well here.  Brin's counter-Orwellian take on
the emerging electronic panopticism is that we should
ALL have access to the cameras ...

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/fftransparent.html

http://crit.org/http://crit.org/openness/sourcedocs/BrinCh1.html

Of course, see as well ...

Foucault, Michel.  Discipline and Punish.
   Trans. Alan Sheridan.  New York: Pantheon, 1977.

But also ...

Brin, David.  Earth.  New York: Bantam, 1990.

... in which privacy is stigmatized in the name of
open access (Switzerland having been this generation's
Vietnam), and, for example, senior citizens spend
their days in the park wired with cameras making
documentaries to be downloaded off the all-pervasive
internet of the mid-twenty-first century.  See also
DB's Sundiver, Startide Rising, et al. (and don't
blame him for Kevin Costner's loose adaptation of his
novel, The Postman) ...

--- Doug Millison <DMillison at ftmg.net> wrote:
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010701/aponline172248_000.ht
> m
> 
> TAMPA, Fla. -- Tampa is using high-tech security
> cameras to scan the city's
> streets for people wanted for crimes, a law
> enforcement tactic that some
> liken to Big Brother. 
> A computer software program linked to 36 cameras
> began scanning crowds
> Friday in Tampa's nightlife district, Ybor City,
> matching results against a
> database of mug shots of people with outstanding
> arrest warrants. 
> 
> ....see Pynchon's comments re police use of
> computers in is intro to Stone
> Junction.


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