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Let'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 inve
by hyperdunc 8y ago
Let'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