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

[Doc Searls < >]

I don't think it's a guise, and it is loony, on purpose. 

I think he's working out an angle for Dilbert, which is about the routine 
absurdities of business.

Note the high degree of rationalization required for surveillance-based 
advertising. What he's saying in this post isn't far from that.

Doc

On Aug 13, 2014, at 6:49 PM, 

 
 wrote:

> 
> 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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> on digital identity and privacy.  Lockstep Technologies develops unique 
> new smart ID solutions that enhance privacy and prevent identity theft.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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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:
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>> Meant to provoke:
>> 
>> <http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/information_is_the_cure_for_privacy/>
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> But food for thought.
>> 
>> Doc
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> -- 
> Adrian Gropper MD
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