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It doesn't have to be watching everybody. Just enough that the subjects believe their behavior to be under scrutiny, and police themselves accordingly. At least
by xhevahir 2y ago
It doesn't have to be watching everybody. Just enough that the subjects believe their behavior to be under scrutiny, and police themselves accordingly. At least, that's the principle of the panopticon.
I've been reading We Have Been Harmonized, which talks about China's efforts to build something like this on a massive scale.
- kibwen 2y agoThe classical panopticon was phrased that way ("pretend that you're watching and everyone will fall in line") precisely because actually paying attention was infeasible. But anyone with half a brain knows that, up until now, 99% of cameras that you see (or don't see) are completely unmonitored, meaning that smart dissidents understand how to deal with them. Once every single camera has an AI agent phoning home and producing a real-time map of everyone's movements at all times, this becomes orders of magnitude more difficult. In the AI age, revolution becomes impossible. Hang on for dear life to your freedoms, because once they're gone, you're never getting them back, thanks to tech.