7. Utopian Peep
February, 2009
Ten years ago futurist David Brin argued in his book The Transparent Snciels that we should stop protecting privacy and work toward the Utopian notion of transparency. In the transparent society there would be no secrets. All citizens would have equal access to equal information. Since Brin's speculations on the benefits of transparency, various writers have pointed to the new era of ubiquitous peeping and widespread surveillance (self-directed and otherwise) as evidence that we are moving tow...
