What is the price of security that citizens are prepared to pay?

Will surveillance technology force us to choose between our right to privacy and national security?

The Proceedings of The Second Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security.

From the archive:

David Brin debates Brad Templeton on "The Costs and Benefits of Transparency: How Far, How Fast, How Fair?"

I know I'm pretty well alone here, but all the glossy avatars and video and social networks conceal a trivialization of interaction, dragging it down to the level of single-sentence grunts, flirtation and ROTFL [rolling on the floor laughing], at a time when we need discussion and argument to be more effective than ever.