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Participatory Panopticon: 2019

In April of 2004--just a bit over 15 years ago--I posted this question to Worldchanging: "What happens when you combine mobile communications, always-on cameras, and commonplace wireless networks?" I called the answer the Participatory Panopticon. Remember: at that point...

Posted by Jamais Cascio on June 6, 2019 3:55 PM

A World in Which

(This is the full text of a talk I gave at the Institute for the Future on 21 October 2015, as part of the "New Body Language" workshop on wearable/"body area network" technologies for the Technology Horizons program.) Why...

Posted by Jamais Cascio on October 22, 2015 9:45 AM

In the Press

Yep, pretty busy lately. I hope to have a book announcement soon, though. I was asked to write a short opinion piece for New Scientist on the problem of filtering our reality, based on the success of the "Here Active...

Posted by Jamais Cascio on June 30, 2015 2:03 PM