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Re: THE NATIONAL DATA CENTER AND PERSONAL PRIVACY

Marc — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:57:06 -0000

zippyspincycle, Toronto: Here's apparently a copy of "Boby & Ray's take on it":

(otherwise try searching for the title "The day the computers got Waldon Ashenfelter")

Re: THE NATIONAL DATA CENTER AND PERSONAL PRIVACY

Mike — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:21:09 -0000

Our cell phones, ez-pass and other devices, track where we are, every email and comment is saved, our credit card purchases are tracked, our grocery stores keep track of how much milk we buy, but I wouldn't worry too much. I mean they are doing it for our own good... right?

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Hello World — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:28:17 -0000

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Barbara R — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:39:39 -0000

There was a series of Reith Lectures on the BBC years ago, which focussed on the proliferation of data, both "good" and "bad" and it's propensity to clog everything up, since the "bad" data was indestinguishable from the "good" many times. The arguement, put crudely, was that in an oral society ideas that proved useless tended to get forgotten and good ideas were passed around, providing an evolution of ideas. Once information was permanently recorded the rubbish would mount up and be almost impossible to get rid of. Just check out the Internet to verify this.
I used to wory a lot about this, but you know what? Human ingenuity usually prevails and good ideas are still passed around, albeit often informally. Just make sure your friends are not too gullible and exchange information with them freely and it will probably all work out ok.

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/pd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:41:02 -0000

This one brillent find .. thank you for sharing !!

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Toronto — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:55:12 -0000

So, can we get a link to the Bob and Ray article, too?

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Warren — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:08:11 -0000

Cassandra. Very good allegory :) Thanks!

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Albatross — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:41:08 -0000

"Arthur Miller" is apparently a pseudonym for Cassandra ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... )

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Benzene — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:55:47 -0000

The best part of this article is that he correctly assumes that people don't change along with the technology. Every other "inventions of tomorrow" article seems to think we'll all melt down our guns to make computer chips and flying cars and start an automated utopia. Miller realizes that people will continue to be jerks and correctly assumes that a national network might require regulation and security.

ARPAnet was built just a couple years after he wrote this. In a way, he got this in just in time.

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Warren Keiner — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:19:17 -0000

Coincidentally, the other Arthur Miller, the author of the Crucible, also has important roots
to The University of Michigan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Charlie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:55:38 -0000

Tim » You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you.

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Tim — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:57:13 -0000

Taking distrust and paranoia to unprecedented levels in 1967. Nice.

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nlpnt — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:20:19 -0000

Scary.
Perhaps the biggest change is that day-to-day exposure to PCs has givien a well-deserved beating to the notion of The Computer as omniscient and infallible!
I had seen on "Countdown" just this night that the government has been giving credit bureaus access to the terror watch list...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...

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spootmonkey — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:33:56 -0000

Great find and a amzing article... Could I repost it with link on you?

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RB — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:14:37 -0000

Amazing article that gets one thing wrong - the danger is even greater than Miller predicted.

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Charlie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:57:11 -0000

zippy: Just haven't gotten to it, I will soon.

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Filepromptdotcom — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:53:26 -0000

Nice piece of history, and still true

http://www.fileprompt.com

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zippyspincycle — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:31:59 -0000

Terrific find--will share this with my students. But why, oh why, did you not include Bob & Ray's take on the topic (p 58 of that issue)? (OK, fair use and all that...)

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Not telling — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:46:44 -0000

Great read. Still very much applicable today.

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Dane — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:44:48 -0000

OOPS! This isn't Arthur (A.) Miller the famous author -- this Arthur R. Miller is a legal guru. Notice how the cover has "lawyer's critique." Either way, it's a fantastic find!!

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Ordinary Guy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:51:40 -0000

This is an amazing find and a great article. I place a blog post on my blog pointing back here. I recently wrote an article about PCI and RFID tag tracking on my blog (http://ramblingordinaryguy.... and find our failure to pay attention to this prediction 41 years later both frightening and amusing at the same time.

A great article.