{"id":4542,"date":"2010-09-10T07:31:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T14:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2010-09-09T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T06:11:56","slug":"little-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=4542","title":{"rendered":"Little Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a provocative little <a title=\"Little Brother Is Watching | CACM\" href=\"http:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2010\/9\/98022-little-brother-is-watching\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> in this month&#8217;s <a title=\"Communications of the ACM Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CACM<\/a>, written by <a title=\"Greg Bear: The Official Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gregbear.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Bear<\/a>, an award-winning Science Fiction author. It paints a rather bleak picture of a techno-dystopia with a nasty social angle. The picture may seem paranoid, but it&#8217;s also easy to see how parts of it are making their way into our present-day reality. What measures can (should) we take to avoid this future?<\/p>\n<p>And what of other societies, where Big Brother can leverage all of this technology as well?<\/p>\n<p>(Apologies for the link to the story: ACM membership is required.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a provocative little story in this month&#8217;s CACM, written by Greg Bear, an award-winning Science Fiction author. It paints a rather bleak picture of a techno-dystopia with a nasty social angle. The picture may seem paranoid, but it&#8217;s also easy to see how parts of it are making their way into our present-day reality. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4544,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}