- I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance to arrest criminals before they commit a crime. I have to admit I thought Dick’s idea of “pre-crime” to be unrealistic back then. I don’t anymore.
And responsible for Manning being behind bars. I refuse to click on a wired story.
I think Kelly has a salient point worth considering. He states, "Networks require an immune system to remain healthy, and intense monitoring and occasional secrets are part of that hygiene to minimize the bad stuff. But in larger doses secrecy becomes toxic; more secrecy requires more secrets to manage and it sets up a debilitating auto-immune disease. This pathology is extremely difficult to stop, since by its own internal logic it must be stopped in secret." So many secretive systems implode as the weight of bearing all of the secrets become too much to allow the system to exist. The most restrictive and controlling governmental systems around the world are now crumbling due to surveillance from their citizenry. Sure. Much of my stuff is public, or could be, for those that wanna look, but who really cares? Or, for that matter, even without the internet, those with the means and motivation could have always surveilled my home, sifted my trash, and invaded my privacy in physical rather than electronic means.