Panopticon Society

[Green_Manalishi]

Here is an interesting essay about the concept of the panopticon and the modern technologies that can be used to put it in practise (or better, in a "higher degree of practise", for we already have, for example in the UK millions of cameras constantly watching the citizens).

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/rant/panopticon-essay.html

For a bit of history on the concept of the Panopticon.

http://www.bunker8.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/history/panopticon.htm

Funny how the concept of the Panopticon was readily accepted in the USA: "