9 Bruce Sterling Quotes on Privacy

Bruce Sterling quotes on privacy

5. A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

11. Get the hell away from those lunatics. Who the hell wants to live in a USA with a TIA in it? Why would you want to invest in that country? The currency would crash. The political elite would annihilate one another.

15. I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

17. I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

20. I noticed that people are doing a lot of 'googling' before a first date nowadays - this represents the real trend. Poindexter's doing this and DARPA allowed him to do it for the propaganda that someone's serious about cyberwar someplace.

34. It would be profoundly destabilizing. Their sexual affairs would be public. They'd be 'Lewinskied.' They'd be 'Whitewatered.'

46. Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

64. Years ago, if your husband died in a house fire, you could get a covered wagon and go to Oregon. Now, as soon as you arrive in Oregon, someone could google you. 'Oh, well, widow Simpson. Really sorry to hear about the house fire.'

65. You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.