Decius wrote:
] ] In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence
] ] extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or
] ] be outed, later if not sooner. This is something I would
] ] bring to the attention of every diplomat, politician and
] ] corporate leader: the future, eventually, will find you
] ] out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of
] ] transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you
] ] will be seen to have done that which you did.
]
] A matter of fact observation about the future of privacy and
] the public mind made in the context of Orwell's birthday.
]
] I used to beleive that by being able to communicate better we
] would understand more, and by understanding more, we would
] find peace with eachother.
]
] But I increasingly find myself confronted with the fact that
] no matter how much cold, hard data you exchange people still
] see exactly what they want to see and people almost never
] change their minds about things that they care about. People
] have to learn to separate their sense of self worth from the
] accuracy of their beleifs, their cultural mythologies, etc...
] Technology is not going to solve that problem.

Nicely put, Tom - Nano

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