Thought Crimes

[Stonehead]

This is the shit. Fulbright Chair Speaker Series: John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore

 

Good listen...especially from 4:20 to 4:58: "...too much liberty has been seized against the notion that there were certain things that are dangerous to know. We don't believe that anything is dangerous to know, ...there are dangerous things to do... but we believe that nothing is inherently dangerous to know...nothing."

 

Changes in technology will present new challenges. For instance, check this: Tapping Brains for Future Crimes. Science fiction today, reality tomorrow? What if someone's thoughts are a passing fancy rather than the thought-out plans of a potential criminal?

 

 

[Dechristo]

I can tell you, but, then I'd have to kill you.

[Stonehead]

Is your name Jack Bauer?

 

24's character said something to the effect that extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary measures...justifying torture, etc.

 

Is this the Zeitgeist?

[foraker]

If torture worked for Jack Bauer the way it works in the real world, they'd all be dead.

 

torture goes hollywood

[Stonehead]

Stated in article that depictions of torture have increased dramatically. If Milgram experiment is any indicator and viewership of programs such as 24 are popular, that would suggest that under the thin veneer of civilation lurks a barbarous and cruel spirit that finds its release under the aegis of authority. The justification being that the ruthlessness of our enemies have to be matched by ours.

 

Germany under the Nazis showed this, highly cultured yet so warlike (and all that war entails).

[bstach]

What the heck was that Tom Cruise movie where he busted people for crimes they would commit in the future?

[Stonehead]

Minority Report

[Dechristo]

[Stonehead]

Quantum Computer

[joblo7]

'24' sucks .

[Stonehead]

Save Boston!