[Infowarrior] - The utopian dream of total openness

[Richard Forno]

Just watch us: The utopian dream of total openness

Doug Saunders

London — The Globe and Mail

Published Friday, Dec. 17 2010, 8:17 PM EST

Last updated Thursday, Aug. 23 2012, 4:04 PM EDT

Two hundred and twenty-seven years ago, English reformer Jeremy Bentham proposed an idea that seemed to foretell everything in 2010: What if, instead of private individuals judged only by God, we had a society based on total and universal transparency, in which anyone could be observed at any moment and government activities and citizens' lives could instantly be assessed by anyone who cared to look?

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