Quoth morlockel...@yahoo.com:
The corollary is that the future belongs to the few, not to the
masses, because high tech is centralized by nature, as it requires
understanding, and those capabilities are scarce. The rest are
fucked ... I mean 'users'.
There are only competing elites.
I
This discussion thread indicates that (a) there is a high level of discomfort
with the current situation of the digital panopticon, and (b) bringing the
oversight of engineers (or other humans) into the loop is not really going to
change things much because there are wider systemic issues at
