Re: [projectvrm] Scott Adams: Information is the Cure for Privacy

Usually it's the well paid middle class straight white guys that diss 
privacy. They have no need for it. Go figure. 
But when rich white comedians like Scott Adams provide social commentary on 
privacy under the guise of running a joke, it's a bit sick. 
He asks people if they'd really need privacy if everyone knew everything 
about everybody (and, to boot, if we didn't believe in god anymore). Really? 
It's probably more interesting to survey people if they'd like to get to work 
by personal flying car. 

Cheers, 

Steve.

Stephen Wilson
Managing Director
Lockstep Group
Phone +61 (0)414 488 851
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From: "Adrian Gropper" 
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Sent: Thursday, 14 August, 2014 8:34am
To: "Doc Searls" 
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Cc: "ProjectVRM list" 
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Subject: Re: [projectvrm] Scott Adams: Information is the Cure for Privacy

This seems loony. Privacy is primarily that which makes innovation and
invention safer. Trying to categorize it by speculating on the various
potential domains of innovation one by one seems to miss the point of
innovation altogether.

Adrian

On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Doc Searls 
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wrote:

> Meant to provoke:
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> <http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/information_is_the_cure_for_privacy/>
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> > My larger point is that society should not be looking for ways to
> maintain privacy. It should be looking for ways to make privacy
> unnecessary. We will never be free until we lose our unnecessary secrets
> and discover we are better off without them.
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> But food for thought.
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> Doc



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Adrian Gropper MD