March 9th, 2007
Explaining Big Brother
I’m always on the lookout for works that do a good job of explaining why Big Brother is a problem. A surveillance society doesn’t spring up overnight, but we’ve been moving by leaps and bounds, lately.
In the US and UK, the vast majority of the public seems to be utterly complacent about the ubiquitous gathering and storing of information about our private lives by people who have absolutely no accountability to them. I don’t think it’s necessarily because they don’t care, it’s because they don’t understand what it means. And it’s not always the easiest thing to distill in a few minutes. So I was happy to come across this video.
Updated to link the video. The wordpress visual editor strikes again . . .
Blacknell.net » Sunday Reading says:
[...] but that’s one of the points. It’s not a work aimed at a popular audience (something I am always appreciative of), but it’s absolutely worth a read: A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued [...]
March 11th, 2007 at 12:26 pm