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Moral Guardians, Learned Behaviours

As our collective ability to watch and monitor becomes ever more sophisticated how does this change the relationship between individuals, governments and organisations?

In our future perfect your government, network provider and/or device manufacturer has taken it upon themselves to keep society decent. Your communication device monitors your spoken conversations and every time you swear a 10 Euro cent 'fine' is levied to a virtual swear box. Each spoken swear word appears on your phone bill as 'Profanity'. The only question is whether profanities need to be itemised?

Writing from Tokyo | November 5, 2006 | Permalink