From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 12:39:20 MDT
From: Eugen Leitl
>If you've been watching the trends in technology over the last two decades
you'll see that so far the technology, even wielded inefficiently, has
deepened the power asymmetry. There's definitely a danger of going
Emergent in our future.
Terrorists, schmerrorists. The prudent approach is to resist the erosion
of privacy. Unconditionally.<
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Chris Peterson spoke ardently in support of "open source" at a time when
consumers blasted a "toothless deal" proposed on Microsoft for its "source
code".
Jim Halperin writes _The Truth Machine_. "Such a machine, for example,
would facilitate a totally redesigned criminal justice system, and
politicians would have to be extremely honest and forthright, as would
society as a whole. In short, it would completely change civilization as we
know it--a paradigm shift of epic proportions." (Paul M. Heffernan)
We have debated the idea of living in a world in which everyone tells the
truth. An "I will if you will" scenario.
How do we measure privacy in a psychology of open source and truth?
Natasha
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