{"id":445,"date":"2002-12-11T23:30:49","date_gmt":"2002-12-11T23:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/12\/11\/thinking_today.html"},"modified":"2002-12-11T23:30:49","modified_gmt":"2002-12-11T23:30:49","slug":"thinking_today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/12\/11\/thinking_today.html","title":{"rendered":"thinking today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love how good places let me think&#8230; Today i&#8217;ve been trying to grapple with the overarching tendency to see the digital realm as a <a href=\"http:\/\/users.rcn.com\/mackey\/thesis\/panpic.html\">Panopticon<\/a>.  This troubles me because while the end results are awefully comparable, Bentham architected the Panopticon for a particular purpose.  Conversely, the digital realm was not constructed with this purpose in mind; it has evolved.  In its evolution, people are not cognizant of the observation and thus are not following the same type of obedience to authority noted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/Bentham-Project\/\">Bentham<\/a>.  Instead, people are developing their own prison under the false impression that they are building a castle (referring to the terrible movie <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Quotes?0272020\">&#8220;The Last Castle&#8221;<\/a>).  They think that they are providing information to help their lot, but instead they are building boxes that not only keep them in but compare them computationally to a societal norm and then treat them according to their distance from such.    Anyhow, fresh thoughts&#8230; yummy thinking.. Yay for San Francisco!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love how good places let me think&#8230; Today i&#8217;ve been trying to grapple with the overarching tendency to see the digital realm as a Panopticon. This troubles me because while the end results are awefully comparable, Bentham architected the Panopticon for a particular purpose. Conversely, the digital realm was not constructed with this purpose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}