--- On Tue, 10/13/09, Alex Eckelberry <[email protected]> wrote:
> See? It's very good to be watched. Keeps you on your BEST behavior!
Oh, I know what you are saying, Alex. But what has really changed? Since the
first person pointed a parallel-port camera out their window and started
posting jpegs one after another to a web page - what's new? The scale?
Pick your nose on your front porch in Dorset, Ontario in 1983 and no-one had a
digital camera - live or Memorex - but maybe a Polaroid got snapped. In 1963
the picture would never have gotten captured at all, but Mrs. Smith saw it and
you know she told everyone in the quilting circle she saw the dirty hippie with
half his hand disappearing up his greasy snout. In 1863 it was a rare week's
journey from Dorset to the City to the south and you lived with a hundred
people who never got more than a mile away from each other and everyone else
knew more about how you picked your nose than you knew yourself. You probably
weren't living in a home by yourself anyway - the generation before and after
and parallel to each side probably shared a few rooms, or the fortunate few had
servants recording every pick and sharing it at the tavern.
I guess my interest is more in considering where all this is taking us than in
trying to figure out how to stop it. Unless I am significantly mistaken there
is going to be no roll-back of the digital camera nor law against pointing them
at the street in front of your house or the inside your store. I think it will
be some time (if at all) before the government cameras already everywhere
(particularly in places like England) are all streamed live to the web, but if
the quirky experiment that started this thread turns out to have a surprisingly
dramatic impact on lowering crime then we just might see public opinion turn on
a relative dime on that topic, too.
I'm not the author of the world's trends, only a very lowly editor. I'll be
content if I can read the copy well enough to change an interesting comma or
two along the way.
:~)
-chris
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