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New Fast Company Column: I Can See You

My new Fast Company column is now up. I Can See You looks at the dilemmas surrounding mass transparency and the "culture of documentation." With the rise of cheap, networked recording devices--aka, cameraphones--we're seeing the emergence of a culture of...

The Participatory Decepticon

What happens when not only have the tools of documenting the world become democratized, so too have the tools for manipulating our interpretations of reality? The rise of technologies of ubiquitous personal observation -- what I've termed the "participatory panopticon"...

On the Record

Whenever I talk about the participatory panopticon, one issue grabs an audience more often than anything else -- privacy. But the more I dig into the subject, the more it becomes clear that the real target of the panopticon technologies...

Make It So

How soon until we see one of these? The "artifact from the future" shown above is my visualization of a bluetooth headset with an embedded cameraphone-style camera, able to send the video to one's handheld for recording and display....

Technology as Political Catalyst

It's become almost a cliché to observe that the Internet is changing the face of electoral politics at the national scale. The use of the web for fundraising (and to observe fundraising) is an obvious example, but for me a...

December Futurismic Column Now Up

This month's Futurismic column is now up (my fault that it's late). It's an update on what's happening with the participatory panopticon. This time, I look at what Michael Richards, UCLA cops, and George "Macaca" Allen have in common, and...

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