Entradista

Must say I am enjoying the Pronouncements of Chairman Schmidt, we have been following them ever since the Repeal of Privacy: “if you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” ……last year.
This is of course the same Google that refused to speak to CNET journalists for months after they published stuff about Schmidt - obtained from Google searches. And then there was the contretemps about a certain lady.

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I have seen the Singularity, and it is run by Google - broadstuff

In some senses, I think Schmidt is right: We’re heading towards a post-privacy world. One of the pieces of thinking that has most-influenced me on this lately came from an unexpected source: “The Light of Other Days” by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C Clarke.

The book features a technology which uses wormholes in spacetime to effectively “remote view” anything, anywhere (and ultimately, any time). What it does, though, is nicely examine the social and cultural implications of this: what happens when you can be certain that you’re being watched, all the time?

Clarke and Baxter take the positive view: We stop caring what anyone thinks, and enjoy ourselves. The key thing, of course, is that everyone can watch, not just the state – so there’s a different cultural conclusion compared to Orwell’s Big Brother, where it’s the state that does the watching.