с увеличивающейся частотой
04:16 | 13-02-2011 | Lifeform, Politics | No Comments
Уильям Гибсон, к слову, предсказал сегодняшний WikiLeaks-скандал еще в 2003:
This is something I would bring to the attention of every diplomat, politician and corporate leader: the future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you will be seen to have done that which you did.
впрочем, статья не только об этом, но и о развитии информации, ее эволюции:
Loss of traditional privacies may seem in the short term to be driven by issues of national security, but this may prove in time to have been intrinsic to the nature of ubiquitous information.
Certain goals of the American government’s Total (now Terrorist) Information Awareness initiative may eventually be realized simply by the evolution of the global information system — but not necessarily or exclusively for the benefit of the United States or any other government.
удивительно напоминает “Эдем” Станислава Лема, не правда ли? или Лемов же “Дневник, найденный в ванной”:
I say ”truths,” however, and not ”truth,” as the other side of information’s new ubiquity can look not so much transparent as outright crazy. Regardless of the number and power of the tools used to extract patterns from information, any sense of meaning depends on context, with interpretation coming along in support of one agenda or another. A world of informational transparency will necessarily be one of deliriously multiple viewpoints, shot through with misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories and a quotidian degree of madness.
приготовьтесь.