I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public. According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]
Categories: anthropology,psychology,technology
Tagged: anthropology, context collapse, culture, empathy, identity, media, privacy, public, self, sociology, technology
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- July 17, 2009 – 3:45 pm
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- By Adam
Naomi Klein wrote a poignant article recently about the ways in which the global surveillance market is being propped up by the Beijing Olympics. Her article is entitled The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0, and it details how the Beijing Olympics are being used as an excuse to sell high tech, police-grade surveillance equipment—security cameras, [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: china, cisco, general electric, google, honeywell, naomi klein, olympics, privacy, surveillance
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- August 19, 2008 – 12:32 am
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- By Adam
I don’t know why I didn’t think about it before, when I heard about the United States Department of Homeland Security searching the computer contents of returning US citizens from abroad (1, 2). I originally thought it was ludicrous, of course, watching my rights dissolve as the myth of relentless and omnipresent terror seeped further [...]
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Tagged: anthropology, DHS, law, patriot act, privacy, rant, research, traveling
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- August 14, 2008 – 5:02 pm
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- By Adam