Panopticon: Watch It All

Watch it All, Collect it All, Control it All: In 1791, an Englishman named Jeremy Bentham designed a new kind of prison. It enabled a watchman in a central tower to see into every cell, but the prisoners could not see the watchman and never knew when they were being watched. Bentham called his building a 'Panopticon', meaning all-seeing. Today, we don't need special buildings. We have the ability to make every workplace, every public space, and every home a Panopticon. On the phone, on the ...