Colleagues
--I have generated a "true fiction" speech on surveillance and
privacy-invasive practices as seen by one Mr. Rocky Bottoms --an
engineer with experience in law enforcement, the military and commerce.
The speech was given to the annual international meeting of a
surveillance industry group in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bottoms crosses the
boundaries of various surveillance professions, countries and goals. He
was the national security director at the department store where Tom I.
Voire, (another true fiction individual who used or was victimized by
more than 100 new surveillance tactics) was employed. An abstract is
below and the article is at
http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/rockybottoms.html
Critical comments are always welcomed. Gary
Rocky Bottoms and Some Information Age
Techno-Fallacies
Abstract: In this article I use a "true fiction" speech by Mr. Richard
"Rocky" Bottoms to illustrate a number of background beliefs that
underlie contemporary perspectives on social control, borders,
surveillance, and technology more broadly. Rocky Bottoms exists only in
the imagination, but the arguments he puts forth and the behavior he
reflects are prevalent, and increasingly dominant, in the post 9/11
cultures of industrial countries. His speech is a composite of remarks,
many of them direct quotes, that I have gathered as part of a research
project on surveillance over several decades. The speech is critically
analyzed in light of 38 techno-fallacies of the information age. The
fallacies identified may involve empirical, logical or value dimensions.
http://www.garymarx.net
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