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enlightenment

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11. A lot of technology has really cool uses, that's true.

Reply to Paul E Ester (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 06:22 PM

Mar 2013

I just wonder if the increasingly rapid slide toward a complete surveillance society is worth the potential benefits. Particularly when the thing doing the surveilling is capable of "eliminating" a threat. CCTV cameras are an annoyance, but I don't think they can blow you up.

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dead gestapo agents are rolling in the graves in envy nt msongs Mar 2013 #1

This is only half about surveillance Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #2

Only half is about surveillance. enlightenment Mar 2013 #6

Not leap for joy but Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #8

A lot of technology has really cool uses, that's true. enlightenment Mar 2013 #11

Agreed Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #12

From a privately owned UAV awesome footage of SF Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #4

Soon you won't be able to fly a kite without hitting a drone jsr Mar 2013 #3

i remember a book i had while growing up that had a section on kite fighting dembotoz Mar 2013 #9

Or this country could focus on something like this: green for victory Mar 2013 #5

Cake or death.... WCGreen Mar 2013 #10

Sadly, we are enslaved to the M.I.C. n/t HereSince1628 Mar 2013 #7

Just wait... greytdemocrat Mar 2013 #13

This is the future. You can't fight technological progress, Proles Mar 2013 #14