Decius wrote:
] Jeremy wrote:
] ] Recent articles have led me to conclude that much of the
] ] current debate is ill placed.
] ]
] ] It's not about the data.
] ]
] ] What is it all about?
]
] "There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's
] not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls
] the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we
] think... it's all about the information!

While I appreciate the entertainment value, I think that "Sneakers" offers a futurist's vision of the situation. It's supposed to make you think ... but it's not trying to be "right." If futurists have taught the world one thing, it's that everyone should be capable of thinking for themselves.

I would argue that it's all about the information only in the way that it's all about the money. They are just the substrate.

It's about relationships.

When I see the popular debate repeatedly circling around the same targets, bookending the variously weak and/or alarmist arguments with portentous excerpts from "1984", I am reminded of Flatland.

We will have truly become the Network Society when the world comes to recognize the existence of the third dimension.

RE: On Privacy