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Can anyone recall the name of the philosopher who proposed a one-way viewing dome in the ceiling of a prison? So that whether or not there was an observer in t
by binarymax 16y ago
Can anyone recall the name of the philosopher who proposed a one-way viewing dome in the ceiling of a prison? So that whether or not there was an observer in the dome, the prisoners never knew for sure if they were being watched? Thats the way I feel about CCTV in this country - you never know if someone is watching (but in reality they probably arent, since there are hundreds more cameras than there are officers to observe them).
Good to see they are coming to their senses and scrapping the ID cards and ContactPoint.
The broadband sounds like a pipe dream - but I would literally pay double, maybe even triple, what I am paying now to get what they actually promise. I have 'up to 8Mbps', but in reality the maximum I get is about 1.
- rlivsey 16y agoI think that's Jeremy Bentham and the Panopticon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
- benatkin 16y agoI like that word, Panopticon. The first thing I did, alas, was think of app/conference names based on it. Cropticon, Shopticon, SpanTech, OptiConf, PansyCon...the possibilities are endless.
- Sharlin 16y agoYou're thinking of the Panopticon[1] concept by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham[2]. The concept was later used in a more general sense as a metaphor of the Western society by the French sociologist Michel Foucault[3]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
- mattmillr 16y agoI knew the EFF's Panopticlick sounded familiar, but I couldn't place it. Makes sense. https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- dalore 16y agoWell generally with video surveillance, no one is watching constantly as that costs man hours. It gets recorded and if something is reported they can go back and review the tapes.