The car, the house, the job, the phone, the telly, the bank and the supermarket or mall are our architecture of recordation and social control. Each gives us an illusion of freedom and individuality. Each serves, rather, to individuate, identify, monitor, track and regulate our behaviour. This is why I value my bicycles so highly.

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Further to a lot of discussion about FaceBook and comments (here and here for example) regarding Microsoft's possible investment in the company...

In a podcast lecture from UC Berkley:  "Introduction to the human", Greg Niemeyer, cited this article. He asserted there was a chain of connections linking FaceBook with the CIA and DARPA's discredited Office of Information Awareness (OIA).