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	The Transparent Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Transparent Society (1998, ISBN 0-7382-0144-8, ISBN 020132802X) is a non-fiction book by the science-fiction author David Brin in which he forecasts the erosion of privacy, as it is overtaken by low-cost surveillance, communication and database technology.
		He argues that true privacy will be lost in the "transparent society"; however, we have the choice between one that offers the illusion of privacy by restricting the power of surveillance to authorities, or one that destroys that illusion by offering everyone access (including the ability to watch the watchers).
		Transparency is sometimes confused with equiveillance (the balance between surveillance and sousveillance).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Transparent_Society (445 words)

	Transparency (humanities) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a metaphorical extension of the meaning used in the physical sciences: a "transparent" object is one that can be seen through.
		When liberal democracies, like USA or the Philippines, are developing their democracy one step further transparency is introduced as a means of holding public officials accountable and fighting corruption.
		When government meetings are open to the press and the public, when budgets and financial statements may be reviewed by anyone, when laws, rules and decisions are open to discussion, they are seen as transparent and there is less opportunity for the authorities to abuse the system in their own interest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transparency_(humanities) (582 words)

	The Transparent Society, by Pierre Lemieux
		The problem with transparency is not so much the inconvenience or shame of being seen, as the danger of being controlled by the viewer or somebody to whom he transfers the information.
		The transparency requirement is partly waived in certain cases (criminal inquires, foreign spies) where it is thought that the cost of immediate control would outweigh the longer-term benefits of covert action.
		Hence, the transparent society is not an ideal.
	www.pierrelemieux.org /arttransparent.html (1186 words)

	The Transparent Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With transparency, you wouldn’t be able to meet and plot about political agendas in any sphere of institutional life, your enemies would see your opening moves in advance, a recipe for tyranny.
		The end of the Transparent Society is bogus and so is the means to that end, criticism to reduce error.
		Lastly, the greatest flaw in any lasting achievements the Transparent Society might produce if it were possible to be successfully installed worldwide, has to do with human nature, with the destructiveness of self-love.
	home.comcast.net /~reillyjones/transparent.html (2286 words)

	Surveillance, Transparency and Globalized Capitalism
		Furthermore, "reciprocal transparency" is clearly irrational and a doomed strategy: justified in the name of preventing the total surveillance of all by a small minority, "reciprocal transparency" inaugurates the total surveillance of all by all.
		The literally transparent office building -- like the "open" gridded street plan that is designed to prevent opacity in the circulation of vehicles, people and commodities -- both signifies and embodies the transparency of capitalism's designs upon and domination of the entirety of human society, all of life, the very planet itself.
		Transparency is one of the buzz-words among the international capitalist elite.
	www.notbored.org /transparent.html (4790 words)

	Introduction - The Indonesian Society for Transparency
		Transparency is sincere and comprehensive opennes, which allow active participation of entire community in the process of public resources governance.
		Therefore, building a transparent society always is associated with efforts and process of generating a national integrity system.
		The absence of transparency results widespread detriment on society: distortion in resources allocation, prevalent injustice, and ineffective rule and the law.
	www.transparansi.or.id /pendahuluan_e.html (248 words)

	The Transparent Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A prototype transparent society was explored by the Bentham brothers in...
		The Greater Louisville Bonsai Society, founded in 1971, is one of the oldest bonsai societies east of the Mississippi.
		The Society is a non-profit, educational society of individuals interested in the art of miniature trees.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-The_Transparent_Society.html (1834 words)

	The Transparent Society: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He argues that it could be good for society if the surveillance is equal for all, EHandler: no quick summary.
		A prototype transparent society was explored by the Bentham brothers in their Panopticon Panopticon quick summary:
		Transparency is equiveillance (the balance between surveillance Surveillance quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_transparent_society.htm (973 words)

	The Biggest Ideas - The Foundation of the Long Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Transparency of the Works of Humankind: We need to redesign all our activities from manufacturing to agriculture, power generation to housing and transport, so that they fit harmlessly within natural systems.
		Transparency of Nature: We need to study nature in far greater detail than we ever have, so that we understand the solutions nature embodies about how to live in a sustainable way.
		Transparent Human Relationships: Bush’s style of democracy is as opaque as a dictatorship; it prevents citizens from having access to information about how decisions are made and what the results of those decisions are.
	www.thebiggestideas.com /cgi-bin/viewps.cgi?the_foundation_of_the_long_dreamps.txt (1993 words)

	Transparent Watercolor Society of America Press Release: Midwest Watercolor Society Becomes Transparent Watercolor ...
		Founded in 1975 by two transparent watercolor artists, the purpose of the Transparent Watercolor Society of America is to advance the stature and foster appreciation of transparent watercolor as a major expression.
		TWSA recognizes a distinction between the terms "transparent watercolor" and the broader designation "water-based media" which refers to any medium that is resoluble in water.
		There are innumerable watercolor societies that provide opportunities to exhibit water-based mediums in all their diversity; yet there exist only a few whose unique purpose is to preserve and present transparent watercolor as a major medium.
	www.watercolors.org /news/030623.html (493 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and ...
		In The Transparent Society, David Brin takes Sun executive Scott MacNealy's famous statement, "There is no privacy anymore," and explores what it may mean in the future.
		Such a society, a transparent society, where people and organizations are accountable for their actions, is one that will have less crime, less fear and more freedom.
		It is at the heart of an open society, that we obey laws not out of fear of arrest, but our of respect for our society and our fellow citizens.
	www.epinions.com /book-review-401F-11726D2D-39EA0F4F-prod5 (430 words)

	The Transparent Society - David Brin
		I suggest that the implicit larger question is whether we are approaching a transparency singularity phenomenon (to adapt an idea of Vernor Vinge's), a barrier of change so pervasive that ironically we cannot see beyond it, and it is difficult even to imagine the transformed nature of such a thoroughly transparent society.
		As I read The Transparent Society, I thought of "Private Eye" and expected Brin to mention the neat psychological whodunit which is on precisely this subject.
		The Freedom of Information Act is an example of a free society attempting to apply such openness to its government servants; organizations such as Judicial Watch strive to hold the American government to this standard.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Brin/Transparent-Society.html (2738 words)

	Amazon.de: The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He therefore spends a lot of pages examining what steps are required to assure that a transparent society evolves in a manner that enhances rather than restricts freedom.
		David Brin has a lot to say and says it discursively, but he's done his homework--dipping into an impressive range of social science, philosophical, crytographic, and technical literature--thought carefully, marshalled compelling arguments seasoned with humor and bright metaphors, and, as a result, is worth listening to, arguing with, or simply pondering.
		The Transparent Society works out, with much supporting detail, ideas about secrecy and privacy first raised in Brin's magisterial novel, Earth, and does so in a civilizational context.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0738201448 (934 words)

	Escapable Logic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All the technical clues point to a transparent society that collectively knows as much about its participants as did the citizens of a 19th century village.
		The icing on the transparency cake will be the broad adoption of Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags.
		In an Obvious Society, each of us will have one or more devices capturing the video stream moving past it and aware of the description and history of the material objects it is near.
	www.blaserco.com /blogs/2003/02/23.html (676 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and ...
		However, instead of calling for this surveillance to be clamped down upon, he argues for a more open society from both sides -- one where those in power would be required to adhere to the same "openness" standards as their constituents, where the police are monitored as well as monitoring.
		Allowing for a transparent web of openness, Brin argues, will instead result in a new standard of openness, one where the private matters of others can become more mundane, while their behavior is held to a higher standard of accountability.
		However, instead of calling for restrictions on this surveillance, he argues for a more open society from both sides -- one in which those in power would be required to adhere to the same "openness" standards as their constituents, where the authorities are monitored as well as monitoring.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=1A25EO0B94&mscssid=1VKDFUHQ43MB8K2HW0HRVLX6QJSP3UVE&vcqty=1&isbn=0738201448 (1127 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In The Transparent Society, award-winning author David Brin details the startling argument that privacy, far from being a right, hampers the real foundation of a civil society: accountability.
		The biggest threat to our society, he warns, is that surveillance technology will be used by too few people not by too many.
		The Transparent Society is full of such provocative and far-reaching analysis.The inescapable rush of technology is forcing us to make new choices about how we want to live.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0738201448 (1452 words)

	Asymmetric Information
		In the transparent society, you can be spied on by anyone, but you have symmetric capabilities, including the the knowledge of who is spying on you.
		But in the transparent society, I can see that he is peeking, and this may give me the power to stop him.
		The Transparent Society is a valuable contribution to how we might live with the inevitable drop in the costs of surveillance technologies.
	arnoldkling.com /~arnoldsk/aimst4/aimst432.html (1717 words)

	Angeline Scherf
		The transparent society that is emerging doesn't seem to be the one that the cybernetic intended, a rational democracy where feedback protocols would have assured an optimal regulation of common behavior.
		In addition to the transparency claimed by governments (nothing that citizens do should escape the authorities) is the transparency as understood by the transparent data processing the user takes no notice of.
		In this context, it becomes increasingly uncertain that the form of an exhibition is viable as a critical measure.
	www.apexart.org /exhibitions/scherf.htm (1900 words)

	A View from Elsewhere : The Transparent Society
		It is a fact, for example, that certain sexual practices are considered acceptable in the United States and that a large number of other sexual practices aren't acceptable at all (although everybody does it anyway).
		A society without privacy only worked if there were no prejudice, no judging of one's behavior by others and a strong sense of confidence and self-esteem on the side of the citizenry.
		A society isn't free if there is no privacy.It is true that privacy helps support the "social contract" of not sharing certain types of information.
	blogs.msdn.com /johnmont/archive/2004/05/15/132558.aspx (686 words)

	RCCS: View Book Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Early in the 21st century we will face this reality, David Brin argues in The Transparent Society, and confront a troubling choice between living a free, but fishbowl-like existence of constant scrutiny on the one hand or retaining our supposed privacy while relying on the authorities to responsibly monitor society on the other.
		How to compete, cooperate, and thrive in a "transparent society," one where average citizens have as much access to personal data, information archives, and instant surveillance images as the high and mighty, is a central question of the new century, Brin argues in this imaginative commentary.
		Although pragmatic about the transition to a transparent society ("I'd be happy to have transparency move ahead in baby steps"-- 334), Brin remains convinced that "those cameras on every street corner are coming, as surely as the new millennium" (13).
	www.com.washington.edu /rccs/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=36&BookID=47 (653 words)

	NCPA Debate Central -- Privacy vs. Transparency?
		David Brin's fascinating book, The Transparent Society is a valuable introduction to the privacy debate topic.
		The Transparent Society is considered by many to be the most thoughtful and insightful book on the privacy debate.
		Klein also mentions a point about misleading polls of privacy concerns (also emphasized by Brin in The Transparent Society): "A pollster, it has been said, is someone who asks citizens what they think about something they don't think about." (p.
	www.ncpa.org /debate2/transpar.html (503 words)

	Bambi Francisco: The transparent society
		Nonetheless, I left it up to them to decide what transparency means to them, and how transparency would change consumer behavior, and create demand for certain products developed by companies they may one day want to invest in.
		Having your dirty laundry indexed and accessible to everyone with a connection to the internet is only a problem if someone uses that information to his or her advantage.
		All authoritarian societies are built on limiting all but a select few individuals' ability to access information (including learning about other people's backgrounds).
	bambi.blogs.com /bambi_francisco/2006/04/the_transparent.html (829 words)

	4.12: The Transparent Society
		Accounts from the past are filled with woeful events in which societies and peoples suffered largely because openness and free speech were suppressed, leaving the powerful at liberty to make devastating blunders without comment or dissent from below.
		As inefficient and irascibly noisy as it seems at times, this habit of questioning authority ensures freedom far better than any of the older social systems that were based on reverence or trust.
		Some of society's best and brightest minds have taken recently to extolling a coming "golden age of privacy," when no one need fear snooping by the big, bad government anymore.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/4.12/fftransparent_pr.html (3417 words)

	Transparent Watercolor Society of America
		Early in the 1970’s at an Ed Whitney workshop, Nora Stevens shared her dream of forming a national transparent watercolor society in the Midwest with Frank Webb and the journey took shape.
		TWSA recognizes an important distinction between “transparent watercolor” and “water-based mediums.” With only a few other existing societies, TWSA moves forward with its passion, to preserve and promote the unique character of transparent watercolor as a major medium, for now and for the future.
		There are innumerable watercolor societies that provide opportunities to exhibit "water-based media" in all their diversity.
	www.watercolors.org (830 words)

	Review: The Transparent Society
		Most people expect a right to a certain level of privacy [1], yet these same people are equally adamant about openness and accountibility of others--corporations and governments, for instance.
		God suggests to Walsch that a key feature of advanced civilizations is their level of transparency.
		In a transparent society, there are no secrets.
	www.holisticnetworker.com /bookreviews/transparent.html (443 words)

	06/08/98 ONLINE ORIGINAL: CHAPTER ONE OF 'THE TRANSPARENT SOCIETY'
		What distinguishes society today is not only the pace of events but also the nature of our tool kit for facing the future.
		If transparency is the requisite condition in science, democracy, and free markets, it should come as no surprise that economists--who work at the nexus of all three--find openness appealing.
		Although they generally favor transparency, economists warn that information flows should be opened up evenly, lest one side or another gain unfair advantage during the transition--a gradualist approach that is supported throughout this book.
	www.businessweek.com /1998/23/b3581039.htm (9517 words)

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