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user-inactivated  ·  3896 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls - The Washington Post

Vance Packard wrote about something called Whole Systems Management in his book The People Shapers 1977

Secondary application of the technology must inevitably include a integration into Packard's Whole Systems Management





humanodon  ·  3896 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can't seem to find anything on Whole Systems Management (at least not Packard's). Would you mind pointing me to a link where I might get more info?

Edit: This guy looks pretty interesting. Would you recommend his other books too?

user-inactivated  ·  3896 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I haven't read his other books but Packard during his day was very highly regarded and influential.

As for whole systems management I wish I had more information. One would naturally have expected that more detail would have leaked regarding that program during the intervening three and a half decades since Parkard's work. He did not spell out what it was in great detail. If I understand it correctly it was a cooperative effort between law enforcement, university personal and assets, and the private sector, with the purpose of keeping track of everyone in a given community somewhere along the south eastern coast of the U.S.

humanodon  ·  3896 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I appreciate the outline. The People Shapers is now on my reading list.