On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:32:11AM +0100, Nick wrote: > The author of this article talks about predicting and preventing > "bad actions", but that really isn't what the panopticon was > designed to do (except rather indirectly). It was about the > possibility of surveillance moderating the behaviour of its > subjects, not about prediction at all.
Of course in case of state surveillance, this will cause the unwilling subjects to exert counterpressure, ultimatively making looking for terrorism a self-fullfilling prophecy. Of course if you're fishing for evidence to justify your budget, and look for more... honi soit. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org