From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 08:26:29 MST
It appears as if Jeff Allbright <jeff.allbright@usa.net> wrote:
|
|Arthur C. Clarke's new book, _The Light of Other Days_, treats the same
|issue of a transparent society and then raises it to a higher level with a
|technological development that allows the public to view anyplace at
|anytime, thus making people accountable now for actions they thought they
|had successfully covered up in the past. A new morality takes over the land
|(mostly).
If
``The "transparent society" means that J.Random Anyone can spy on
J.Random Anybody-Else.''
and
''The current society is not a transparent society.''
then I conclude that
In a transparent society, privacy becomes a property of the superpower
militaries and of the very, very rich.
since privacy would require active contrasurveillance, and the cost for that
goes up as a function of time.
If someone invents nanotechnology, the contrasurveillance would require it too.
Only when contrasurveillance measures cost so much that even the VVrich
and the military cannot afford it, will the transparent society become a
real reality. Until then, it will be a new tyranny.
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