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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 01 January 2010 04:19:53PM *  2 points [-]

Robin Hanson makes a similar prediction in 'Enhancing Our Truth Orientation' (pp. 362-363):

Humans have long worked to document their lives, inventing gadgets to aid in writing and recording, concepts and conventions to make what we say meaningful and comparable, and social institutions to let us coordinate in monitoring and verifying our documentation. It is harder to lie, and so to self-deceive, about documented events. [...] Many lament, and some celebrate (Brin, 1998), a coming ‘‘surveillance society.’’ Most web pages and email are already archived, and it is now feasible and cheap for individuals to make audio recordings of their entire lives. It will soon be feasible to make full video recordings as well. Add to this recordings by security cameras in stores and business, and most physical actions in public spaces may soon be a matter of public record. Private spaces will similarly be a matter of at least private record.