>In a message dated 10/7/2002 6:38:08 AM US Mountain Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ><< > "I sometimes wonder if I'm living on the same planet as David Brin," said > Philip E. Agre, an associate professor of information studies at the > University of California at Los Angeles. "Everyone can watch the common > people, but that has nothing to do with the political question of who can > watch the powerful." > >>
Au contraire. Default expectations of secrecy have a great deal to do with the political question of who can watch the powerful... Brad DeLong -- J. Bradford DeLong Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I do not understand how universal bankruptcy can do any good or bring us nearer to prosperity." --John Maynard Keynes _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
