Tuesday, February 10, 2009

C++

1)Does the possibility of constant surveillance in our society pose an insurmountable threat to human freedom?
2) When human bodies are fused 100% of the time in a global network via computer chips in clothing, will this constitute an additional convenience, or will it completely disintegrate our conception of private space?
3) How do our commonsense notions of one envelope of skin, one mind conflict with the idea of nodes strung together in an intelligent network?
4) What is the nature of human agency? Has it changed over time?
5) When information crosses the quantum boundary, how will our social institutions react and adapt?

1 comment:

  1. In response to your first question...
    Yes the possibility of constant surveillance does post a threat to our freedom because how can we say we live in the "land of the free" when we have no privacy. Constant surveillance is in a sense terroristic. We would be living in a totalitarian state where every aspect of our lives is controlled. That cannot equal freedom... but what really is freedom?

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