Here It Comes: Learing To Love Big Brother

Every breath you take, every move you make ... can be watched all right 

George Orwell had it completely wrong: ubiquitous sensing technology won't be the dictator's tool for enslaving ordinary citizens. Rather, it will give open societies the capacity for serious resilience in an increasingly connected world where danger knows no boundaries. 

Full Op-Ed by Thomas Barnett, published in Capitol Hill Blue on November 21, 2006.  The article is no longer there, so I tracked it down and have changed the Link to take the reader to Barnett's website where he has archived the article.  - TLC, 01-19-21.

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Using Orwell in support of the establishment of a totalitarian society. Not surprising, not even delicious irony. Just sad. 

For those out of the reality loop, do a Google search on, using the quotation marks, "Total Information Awareness". 

TLC