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The Creepy New Wave of the Internet
- Txcoder 12y agoI should make a bot that posts when Ray Kurzweil is mentioned or used as source material for a HN post so I can save 30 seconds and a heavy sigh.
- api 12y agoRifkin's comments are creepy. Yes it's true-- throughout most of human history privacy didn't exist and people lived their lives in public. Yet it's also true that much of human history was utter stagnation and conformity where nothing much happened. He also makes the common mistake, also made by Thiel when he discusses the ethics of Palantir, of assuming that the panopticon is symmetrical. In reality those with money, connections, or the criminal ability to break into systems have access to far more information than the average person. The loss of privacy is extremely asymmetrical as well-- those with either the money or the technical ability to hide can still do so.
- alexqgb 12y agoThis underscores the fact that the word "privacy" is generally used as a euphemism for power. Knowing this, you can safely substitute the word "power" for "privacy" nearly everywhere it appeares. The first thing you'll notice is that the vast majority of knotty questions or issues in doubt clear themselves up quite quickly once you start discussing the problem in honest, accurate terms.
- api 12y agoWhack! Wow. I'm not even sure where that ball went. :)
- spacemanmatt 12y agoIt'll make more sense when you know what time it is.
- intopieces 12y agoReminds me very much of the Adam Curtis documentary "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" (2011), which gives an interesting narrative of this movement's beginning.