[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> More utter genius from futurefeedforward

[Keith Sanborn <mrzero@panix.com>]

This description of the copyright infringement  detection agent--fictional
or otherwise--reminds me a great deal of how Brion Gysin (sp?)described
the effects of censorship:  in a place where censorship is dominant and
enforced the mechanisms of censorship become internalized. One does not
even think of writing works that violate the constraints imposed from
outside. Here we see an intelligence looking over our shoulders
constantly, encouraging the internalization of the process through
constant Pavlovian/Skinnerian behavior modification.

Gysin was describing the situation in France in the early 60s I believe.

Keith Sanborn

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Karin Spaink wrote:


>
> On 29-3-02 at 19:10, Bruce Sterling kindly wrote:
>
> [Microsoft claims to be working on a copyright infringement
> warning system that is actively monitoring infringements
> while you write:]
>
> > The advisor works in much the same way as conventional spell-checking and
> > grammar-checking features, monitoring documents on-the-fly as they are
> > created and flagging any potential problems for the user.  Once a
> > potentially infringing passage is identified, the Advisor materializes and
> > offers a number of options, including suggested, non-infringing
> > re-phrasings, and an option to pursue automated negotiation for a
> > licensing micro-payment to cover the use of the copyrighted material.
>
> I'm sure that Scientology will have a field day with that
> one. Soosn, you can't write 'Xenu' any more.
>
> Ah, look! My email program monitors what I am about to
> reply to, and came up with an appropriate line from my
> cookie file. I've been quizzed by TheBat's capacity to do
> so, but now I understand that they're coperating with MS
> Word ;)
>
>
> - K -
>
> --
>
> Did you ever read poor old George Orwell's 1984? Yes, yes,
> that's wonderful. That would be - could be the palest
> imagined shadow of what a world would be like under the rule
> of the secret use of Scientology with no remedy in
> existence.
>   - Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard, PDC tape 20
>
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