Re: WWW representation of Real World? (I hope not)

From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 08:15:39 MST


It appears as if Doug Jones <random@qnet.com> wrote:
|
|I try to make my online persona polite, rational, and intelligent, with
|only the occasional indulgence in silliness... pretty much as I am in real
|life.
|
|This really seems to be trending toward Brin's transparent society, where
|the anonymity of 20th century city life is fading away.

If you create several different network identities for yourself (yourselves?),
and/or bounce their network traffic through a proxy together with a number of
other non-you identidies, then you could avoid irrelevant sentients having
transparent access to your net person(s).

            /Death to the demon Transparent Society!



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