From: phil osborn (philosborn@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 21:27:47 MST
>From: Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Re: Surveillance
>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:47:09 -0800
>
>Zero Powers wrote:
>
> > I also propose that the transparency be mutual and two-way, such that
> > anytime I access any information about you, you can automatically be
> > notified of (a) what information I got about you, (b) when I got it, (c)
>how
> > I got it, (d) who I am, and (e) whatever information I got about you...
>
>Hey Zero, man, this is good stuff, well thought out. I volunteer to
>sign up for your mutually transparent society. I am studying David
>Brin's book currently and find myself right in step with him. If I
>want to read a good rebuttal, what should I be studying? spike
>
This kind of backreference was part of the Xanadu design as I recall. Check
on Ted Nelson.
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