Well, we have a quick peek at that "surveillance state" now for a while: it's called "Big Data". So, what else is new?
Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <[email protected]> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Peter Lindener <[email protected]> wrote: > By now, most people on top of our Society's Transmutation into > surveillance state are beginning to realize what we might be in for... > ..Its pretty clear that over the longer run, corruption driven interests in > the personal extortion market place will come to mine the very data base > that the NSA is building up "for our safety"... > > Then should we expect otherwise?... > In a nut shell...we only have our self's to blame.. Lets face it, > The current social script as to how Democracy is supposed to operate is > clearly broken.. and in the information age we should know better.. after > all, ultimately truly democratic governance is about the transmission of > information regarding the actual wishes of the electorate into the > governance process... > Last I checked the information transmission rate associated with crowds > taking to the streets and waving signs, or for that mater writing letters to > ones congressman/woman.. is not exactly state of the art in the era of > networked communication... so why are we as a humanity collectively > groveling, as if we know no not better..?.. perhaps such that we maintain > the existing (fairly dysfunctional/partially corrupt, money driven) power > schema? > > The crazy thing is, we then pretend that somehow we are setting a good > example for the rest of the world to follow, when in reality... we don't > even seem as a country all that interested ins safeguarding our own > constitution's sense of moral value... > > We can easily do MUCH better... starting from well founded formal > understanding of the nature of information flow surrounding a truly > democratic social decision process.. > > But at this point, I ask do we as a society actually have any real > interest in exploring this possibility space?, or perhaps in the end, we > might be just as content with the form of "democracy" where the elite group > of privet interests with the ability to extract the best extortion data, and > posses the most powerful (privatized) military... gets it way..? > > Given that the solution, involving social network driven proxy based > (trust maintained), issue specialized, expertise leveraged representation... > that entertains a wide open alternative space, that leverages the best, > crowd sourced governance solutions seems just around the corner.. .why > don't we wake up a smell the coffee?? > > -Peter > > -- > Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too > many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing > moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
