I mainly agree. The realistic take has always been and should always be: Whatever
> technology and/or social process that can be used to strengthen > the interests of strategic power, will be used to strengthen the > interests of strategic power. > > Is a very apt description of what is the main challenge for me. Concerning the Panopticon problem, I have seen no mention here of a position that is the best bet I know of : that of Sousveillance advocated by David Brin : http://davidbrin.blogspot.be/search?q=Sousveillance http://www.davidbrin.com/transparency.html Has it been discussed and rejected, or never been considered ? -- Frederic # 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
