![]() ![]() As one of its founders says at a TED talk–type event, “There needs to be, and will be, documentation and accountability, and we need to bear witness.” Ergo, these cameras will be set up worldwide and what they capture will be fed into a central hub anyone can access 24-7. ![]() Its mantras stump for transparency in all our doings- secrets are lies privacy is theft all that happens must be known-and are borne out in the company’s projects, among them a lightweight camera called SeeChange. The Circle has monopolized the Internet and e-commerce it has aggregated data on everyone and made this data available to anyone. Throw Facebook, Google, and Apple together, garnish with a colonizing evil mantled in good intentions, and you’d have the Circle minus the advanced technology and “algorithms” that allow the company to, for instance, tabulate the grains of sand in the Sahara. The novel follows Mae Holland as she begins work at a tech company called the Circle. ![]() There’s been some controversy about plagiarism (as if there’s no way two writers could happen on the idea that social media is bad) there’s been Eggers’s admission that he did no research for the novel there have been some tech-savvy people who think that’s obvious. In False Positives and False Negatives (8), 2012, artists Jane and Louise Wilson show one way to maintain anonymity in a surveillance state: by using face paint.īy now, chances are good you’ve read a thing or two about Dave Eggers’s The Circle. ![]()
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