Comments on: Cellphone epidemiology- Japan’s swine flu panopticon http://futurismic.com/2009/05/22/cellphone-epidemiology-japans-swine-flu-panopticon/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jon http://futurismic.com/2009/05/22/cellphone-epidemiology-japans-swine-flu-panopticon/comment-page-1/#comment-30052 jon Tue, 26 May 2009 06:35:25 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=7489#comment-30052 Japan loves to keep track of everyone... having to notify the government whenever you change address is one example. The irony is that the bureaucracy is so huge and convoluted, no-one is actually paying attention to what you do. Japan loves to keep track of everyone… having to notify the government whenever you change address is one example. The irony is that the bureaucracy is so huge and convoluted, no-one is actually paying attention to what you do.

]]> By: SMD http://futurismic.com/2009/05/22/cellphone-epidemiology-japans-swine-flu-panopticon/comment-page-1/#comment-29470 SMD Fri, 22 May 2009 18:25:24 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=7489#comment-29470 Sometimes good ideas are actually bad ones. This is such an example. Yeah, it's nice you want to monitor your citizens to be able to find out where infections are going, but this is a system that could be abused so badly as to violate individual freedom. But, whatever, the last 8 years pretty much taught us we're allowed to do almost anything if we're scared... Sometimes good ideas are actually bad ones. This is such an example. Yeah, it’s nice you want to monitor your citizens to be able to find out where infections are going, but this is a system that could be abused so badly as to violate individual freedom.

But, whatever, the last 8 years pretty much taught us we’re allowed to do almost anything if we’re scared…

]]> By: Tom Marcinko http://futurismic.com/2009/05/22/cellphone-epidemiology-japans-swine-flu-panopticon/comment-page-1/#comment-29455 Tom Marcinko Fri, 22 May 2009 15:34:57 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=7489#comment-29455 The U.S. National Nose Association is going to come out to protect your right to sneeze. The U.S. National Nose Association is going to come out to protect your right to sneeze.

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