Scott Badger wrote:
> >Brin had a rather extended and at time vile conversation with a number of
> us a
> >year or so ago on this list vis a avis privacy issues in general. While his
> >logic of making everyone accountable to everyone else due to total open
> >survellance would definitely result in little crime or exploitation, and
> >possibly enhance the market by fact that it would result in much better
> >price/value signals, he is, like communists/socialists in the past and many
> >social engineers today, trying to push a change of behavior which is
> totally
> >contrary to human nature. ignoring the fact that most people LIKE their
> privacy,
> >his concept has little possibility of being accepted unless the population
> is
> >scared into it by a totalitarian propaganda machine........ hmmmm, that
> sounds
> >familiar....
> >
> >Mike Lorrey
> >
>
> Really? A desire for privacy is part of human nature? Are there any
> studies that support that hypothesis? Do you mean to say that there was
> some evolutionary advantage available to those who preferred to be alone?
> The only survival value I can think of off the top of my head would be that
> when one was alone and unmonitored, one had an opportunity to hide, or to
> steal, or do something else unbeknownst to the rest of the tribe that would
> give one some sort of unfair (but effective) advantage. Any other
> advantages come to mind that might have resulted in a preference for privacy
> being hard-wired into our circuitry?
Mike Lorrey