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The other part of the allusion to Richard Brautigan's poem (emphasis mine): "I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of ou
by twirlip 8y ago
The other part of the allusion to Richard Brautigan's poem (emphasis mine):
"I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace."
- vonnik 8y agoThat's good context. We can be sure the omission in the review's title was deliberate.
- whatshisface 8y agoFurther, the legal theory behind warrant-less mass surveillance is that you aren't being watched over until a human opens up your documents.
- salawat 8y agoThat's a bit like saying all the nation's classified material is secret because no one has checked it out from the National Archive yet. The data shouldn't exist in the first place.
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