[LINK] Re: Link Digest, Vol 175, Issue 49

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 11:23 +1000, Stewart Fist wrote:
> > That's a pretty weak point, Stewart.
> > Everybody knows that there are times you wish not to be seen.
> 
> Again, that's not the point Karl.
> People often want to limit communications -- they don't always want more.

We've strayed a bit from the original discussion. Originally I just took
issue with the idea that videoconferencing was a business-only thing,
because I think, made easy and cheap, there is nothing that says it
would remain so. I'm not pushing videophones or videoconferencing as a
killer app for high bandwidth.

I personally neither know nor care whether VP/VC will make it or not. I
do have a problem with people saying "that won't work" about technology.
If it breaks a law of physics, OK. If is clearly against the way people
operate, then maybe (but I don't find that as clear cut).

Privacy and our notions of it are already massively different to what it
was just a couple of decades ago. I don't accept privacy as an argument
against any particular technology being able to get a grip on us all. It
might be a good argument about whether it *should* be used, but it is a
non-issue as far as whether it *will* be used.

Regards, K.

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