20091215 Privacy is dead

Get over it. If you are active in this world, your behavior is relentlessly monitored, analyzed, sorted, and cataloged.

Surveillance, sousveillance, whatever: We are only doomed if we fail to embrace and then thoroughly distribute the Eye of Providence.

Let's get on with the continuous lifeblogging, the ubiquitous smart dust, the crowd-sourced and machine-based sifting and pattern matching, the emergent alternative reputation networks. Let's accelerate the inevitable. Let's have 24 hour reality TV both entertaining and edifying, watching the watchers as they go about their business. Let's turn the panopticon inside-out and prove how influence works when no one can hide: is it an awesome idea or just a threat of violence? Let's bust the context with transparency. Intra, extra, and juxta-terrestrial plots will all be exposed, dissected, and debunked even as new ones are generated. Ratings will go through the roof!

The watched and the watcher will become one, and it will be good.