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Does the technology exist? Can we put the genie back in the bottle? So then what?

This article and a lot of the literature assumes the same tools are not also turned upon the managers of society (i.e. that they get to use the times in secret). Many fear that knowledge of our lives will support interference in our lives. Perhaps any such interference must be just as observable and prohibited by law in a free society.

Who watches the watchers? We all could. When there is a conflict or question we have records to review and public opinion to adjudicate.

Of course we would have to rethink a number of assumable cultural expectations.

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