Jun 7, 2010
Gizmodo: Are Cameras the New Guns?
Posted by Woody Evans in categories: biotech/medical, media & arts, policy
Wendy McElroy brings an important issue to our attention — the increasing criminalization of filming / recording on-duty police officers.
The techno-progressive angle on this would have to take sousveillance into consideration. If our only response to a surveillance state is to observe “from the bottom” (as, for example, Steve Mann would have it), and if that response is made illegal, it seems that the next set of possible steps forward could include more entrenched recording of all personal interaction.
Already we have a cyborg model for this — “eyeborgs” Rob Spence and Neil Harbisson. So where next?
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Also speaking at the H+ Summit @ Harvard is 
A younger science than physics, biology is more linear and less exotic than its older sibling. Whereas physics is (mostly) elegant and symmetric, biology is lunging and ungainly, bound to the material and macroscopic. Its predictions are more specific, its theories less sweeping. And yet, in the end, the exploration of life is the frontier that matters the most. Life gives meaning to all elegant theories and contraptions, life is where the worlds of cosmology and ethics intersect.
