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This is what it means to live in a community. The parts of life that happen outside the home are conducted in view of other people, who are constantly updating
by closeparen 7y ago
This is what it means to live in a community. The parts of life that happen outside the home are conducted in view of other people, who are constantly updating their profiles of you based on their observations and broadcasting any detected anomalies on the original gossip protocol. For a time, food and urban planning tech advances let us scale settlements past what our built-in organic surveillance networks could handle, and the gap gave us some privacy for once. But it seems inevitable that surveillance tech would eventually catch up.
It may not be all bad. Technological surveillance could at least be subject to oversight and regulation, where old school family- and community-based social norms monitoring could not.