[PiN-diskusjon] Bokanbefaling: The Traveller og The Dark River

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

De siste dagene har jeg hatt glede av å lese to bøker som
problematiserer dagens overvåkning.  Jeg anbefaler dere å ta en titt
på The Traveller og The Dark River av John Twelve Hawks.  Den andre
boken har en kommentar fra forfatteren som lyder

  The Dark River is a work of fiction inspired by the real world.

  An adventurous reader can touch the sundial hidden beneath the
  streets of Rome, travel to Ethiopia and stand outside the holy
  sanctuary in Axum, or walk through Grand Central Terminal in New
  York and look up at the mystery of the concourse ceiling.

  The aspects of the Vast Machine described in this novel are also
  real or under development.  In the near future, both private and
  governmental total information systems will monitor every aspect of
  our lives.  A central computer will remember where we go and what we
  buy, the e-mail we write and the books we read.

  Each attack on privacy is justified by the pervasive culture of fear
  that seems to surround us and grow stronger every day.  The ultimate
  consequences of that fear is expressed in my vision of the First
  Realm.  Its darkness will exist forever and it will be opposed -
  forever - by compassion, bravery, and love.

Jeg anbefaler begge bøkene for de av oss som er opptatt av potensialet
for misbruk av overvåkningsteknologien.

Litt mer info om forfatteren og bøkene er tilgjengelig fra
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hawks>.

Vennlig hilsen,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen