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Book: The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?
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  1. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    Self-righteousness is an especially heady condition that all of us have experienced at one time or another. Those who are honest will admit there is something sickly-sweet and alluring about knowing you are right, while others are terribly wrong.
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  2. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    We are, at our core, information pack rats and inveterate correlators.
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  3. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    free speech should be viewed as sacred and inviolable not simply for its own sake, but for utterly pragmatic reasons. Only through an active, vibrant, noisy ferment of criticism can blunders be discovered before they bring nations crashing down. Moreover, we can never tell in advance which criticism will later prove right; therefore, we must allow, foster, and even encourage all the criticism we can get.
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  4. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    one of the most fascinating and effective kinds of lying is self-deception.
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  5. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    In principle, an open society sees information flow as a good thing, to be hampered only in the presence of strong evidence that harm cannot be prevented by any other means.
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  6. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    Excuse me for being greedy, but I want freedom and good government.
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  7. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    In 1983, Michael W. Doyle commented on the common observation that democracies almost never wage war on one another. Understanding the reasons for this phenomenon may be crucial to our hopes for preventing devastating conflict in the next generation. Which attributes of democracy foster this essential trait of mutual nonaggression?
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  8. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
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  9. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    Though his book vigorously promotes strong privacy, Miller notes that people routinely trade personal information for convenience or a few dollars of savings, even offering names of "friends and families" to commercial users, if it benefits them.
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  10. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    Demonstrating some of the proposed new techniques of encrypted uniqueness verification that can be embedded in each customer's use-copy of a given work.
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  11. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    Would we be tormenting ourselves over the Kennedy assassination today if fifty cameras had been rolling, instead of just poor Abraham Zapruder's?
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  12. David Brin _ The Transparent Society: Will

    Metaphorically speaking, some very bright people suggest that citizens of the twenty-first century will be best protected by masks and shields, while I prefer the image of a light saber.
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