When the Snowden/NSA revelations hit, and I realized that I'd been participating for 30 years in the willing construction of the new Panopticon, I was mighty de

When the Snowden/NSA revelations hit, and I realized that I'd been participating for 30 years in the willing construction of the new Panopticon, I was mighty depressed. What good the awesome tech of the world if we are using it to oppress and enslave our fellow man? "You call it entertainment - I call it a rat in the cage." If the people of the one country most free in the world can't and factually WON'T do anything about it, then .. we're screwed and must accept our fate. But now I see that in fact, it is meant to be this way. In fact, generations of technologists have been raised to believe that their way is the most righteous (in the full sense of the word) - simply because it is supported by technological prowess. A kind of power which governs the willing and the unwilling equally. So now I think that technology is not the answer. Social revolution is the answer, but of course all the good, old tools of social revolution have been usurped. The new Facebook religion rules us all. So now I resolve even harder to teach the kids the old ways: freedom, liberty, equality for all.