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We should seek to reduce the asymmetry, currently only our masters and their minions get to watch us. If networked dash cams and home security cameras become c
by hnaccy 8y ago
We should seek to reduce the asymmetry, currently only our masters and their minions get to watch us.
If networked dash cams and home security cameras become common there should be crowd sourced public tracking of every LEO, politician, etc.
- hyperdunc 8y agoLet's go a fit further. We know that power corrupts and therefore the powerful often cannot be trusted. So the power a person/institution has should be be inversely proportional to the amount of privacy they enjoy. We can start by only voting in politicians that wear personal cameras a la 'The Circle'. (Some police already do this while on duty.) Of course the irony is it would take a kind of power to make this happen.
- BerislavLopac 8y agoWell, elections resemble reality TV more and more, perhaps that is an angle that could work...
- angry_octet 8y agoC.f. Aeon Flux S03E01 "Utopia or Deuteranopia?" where our autocratic hero Trevor Goodchild institutes a program of radical transparency. https://youtu.be/f5Au5Z_NbOY https://youtu.be/f5Au5Z_NbOY (Forgive the Content ID jamming.)
- wool_gather 8y agoDavid Brin has a very interesting (non-fiction) book on this premise called The Transparent Society