The American prison systems of the late 18th and 19th centuries utilized the notion of the Panopticon - Jeremy Bentham's design that allowed all prisoners to see each other (pan, all; optic, see/observe) and therefore reduce the duty and necessity of prison guards. -critical theory forum.
Every corporate internet company today is obsessed with cataloging your each and every click and post to the web. we let websites choose music for us, track our everyday lives with twitter and facebook, and tag us with mass amounts of cookies. It seems as if everyone is out to create their own social mollification index.
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