[extropy-chat] the non-transparent society

[Keith Henson]

At 12:27 PM 3/8/2007 +0000, Charlie Stross wrote:

snip

>2. What the news article Damien cited did *not* mention was that this
>law was an attempt to deal with the problem of "happy slapping" which
>seems to have crossed the channel.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_slapping

That is really bizarre.

Though I guess it could have been expected by analogy to other acts such as 
recording sexual encounters.

I wonder what else might be expected to crop up in the interaction of high 
tech with stone age brains?

Keith Henson