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Now imagine a world where anyone could enter a gps coordinate and height and see the activity there, at anytime in the past. You think we'd have TARP? You think
by ldar15 15y ago
Now imagine a world where anyone could enter a gps coordinate and height and see the activity there, at anytime in the past. You think we'd have TARP? You think we'd be at war in afghanistan? You think we'd have priests fucking children? Lynchings? Drunk driving?
Many think this would be a dystopian future that forces everyone to conform. I believe that if all those people who only pretend to conform were actually required to conform, we'd suddenly see a great debate on what "normal" should actually be.
Asimov wrote a story about this, and seemed to suggest that his view was that the end of privacy would be a bad thing (but maybe I read it wrong).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
- watmough 15y agoClarke and Baxter also take this on in a great book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
- andrewcooke 15y ago[edit: i was wrong; it wasn't bradbury, i'm remembering the asimov work you mention - an excellent story, i agree] but it ignores the existing power structure. everyone knows that banks screwed up - but who is in jail? same thing goes here: it won't be an equaliser; only the little people will be punished. most people won't be using their viewers to avoid a war, they will be watching infotainment on 3d tv. if you don't explicitly challenge the existing power structure you implicitly strengthen it.