X-Message-Number: 15389
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:15:38 +0100
From: Henri Kluytmans <>
Subject: ubiquitous monitoring systems using MNT

Ken Meyering wrote :

>Just as religions have served the function of increasing "self-monitoring,"
>since people tend to be responsible when they feel they are being "watched,"
>it may be useful for citizens' to adopt a philosophy of nanotechnology
>already being "all around us" even prior to its dramatic and obvious
>disclosure.  If the general public were to adjust to the feeling of being
>under ubiquitous surveillance and occassional "steering" by machine
>superintelligence, they would more likely be "on their best behavior."  The
>initial feelings of paranoia and powerlessness would eventually be displaced
>by acceptance, since we're quite adaptable animals.

It is not all that bad. We will still have the option of privacy 
within certain confined spaces (like our own houses). Only in 
public places you will always be likely to be monitored.

Nanobot defence systems can be used to do surveillance inside our 
houses, but not to inspect and record our occupations, but 
in stead, to find and destroy possible intruding monitoring bots. 

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