Comments on: Sava’s Feet – Echelon System Warning http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/2009/10/savas-feet-echelon-system-warning/ Musings on Technology and Culture Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:13:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Robert Nagle http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/2009/10/savas-feet-echelon-system-warning/#comment-368627 Robert Nagle Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:34:07 +0000 http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/?p=83401233#comment-368627 Hi, Alyson, Thanks for reading. I wrote this in 1998 when I was teaching in Europe. I returned to the US in 1999. I read Orwell's 1984 in 2000 and was surprised how much of what he described applied to current day USA. One Ukrainian friend of mine when she visited Boston expressed surprise (and yes contempt) for all the rules and regulations they had there. I noticed a lot of strict control in Ukraine, but maybe it depends on the control you are not used to. The control you are used to doesn't seem to bother as much. Hi, Alyson, Thanks for reading. I wrote this in 1998 when I was teaching in Europe. I returned to the US in 1999.

I read Orwell’s 1984 in 2000 and was surprised how much of what he described applied to current day USA. One Ukrainian friend of mine when she visited Boston expressed surprise (and yes contempt) for all the rules and regulations they had there. I noticed a lot of strict control in Ukraine, but maybe it depends on the control you are not used to. The control you are used to doesn’t seem to bother as much.

]]> By: Alyson Willis http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/2009/10/savas-feet-echelon-system-warning/#comment-368622 Alyson Willis Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:38:28 +0000 http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/?p=83401233#comment-368622 I found this a really interesting article and I'm going to print it off and give it to my Year 11 pupils. They were asking me about communism last week and I think this article shows the amount of control in both systems. In the UK we have surveillance cameras on many street corners and the amount of state control is increasing weekly. Our supermarkets are doing this customer profiling, I too worry that if all my information ends up in one place "someone" would have a fairly clear picture of me and my life. How is the Ukraine? Alyson I found this a really interesting article and I’m going to print it off and give it to my Year 11 pupils. They were asking me about communism last week and I think this article shows the amount of control in both systems. In the UK we have surveillance cameras on many street corners and the amount of state control is increasing weekly. Our supermarkets are doing this customer profiling, I too worry that if all my information ends up in one place “someone” would have a fairly clear picture of me and my life.

How is the Ukraine?

Alyson

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