Zero Powers wrote:
> >From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mike@datamann.com>
> >
> >Total open ubiquitous surveillance is not only technically impossible,
> >unless you
> >create a techno-socialist state that says each person can only have the
> >same
> >processing capability of anyone else, and that individuals cannot
> >collaborate on
> >distributed processing projects, then it is also not equal either. The
> >powerful
> >will always find such systems to be of more use for maintaining power and
> >supporting oppression than the average person will find it for supporting
> >freedom.
>
> How many times can I say it? There will be no need for you to crunch all
> the data. The mere fact that it is being recorded for retrieval later *if
> necessary* will get the job done.
Let ME say it again: since the flood of information is so large, the average
person has no hope of filtering through it all, but powerful interests that can
afford far more processing power than you or I can, and their ability to extract
more knowledge from the data gives them more power from the same data than you
or I can derive.
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