How much do you make?
Have you ever contemplated
suicide?
Are you now or have you
ever been...?
Are you aware of the fact...?
I have here before me....Electrical
information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance
are causing a very serious dilemma between
our claim to privacy and the community's need to know.
The older, traditional ideas of private, isolated thoughts and actions
--the patterns of mechanistic technologies--are very seriously threatened
by new methods of instantaneous electric information retrieval, by the
electrically computerized dossier bank-- that one big gossip column that
is unforgiving, unforgetful and from which there is no redemption, no erasure
of early "mistakes." We have already reached a point where remedial control,
born out of knowledge of media and their total effects on all of us, must
be exerted. How shall the new environment
be programmed now that we have become so involved with each other, now
that all of us have become the unwitting work force for social change?
What's that buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzjng?
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