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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatching orig Outer Limits. This one on machine that can spy on anyone, anywhere...
Operator tells investigating senator: "If you've got nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
Makes me wonder if Orwell was 1st to posit such intrusion...?
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Off to Google this.
General Zod
(680 posts)Or The Outer Band Individuated Teletracer. Awesome episode!
stone space
(6,498 posts)Shameless thread pimping:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218165739
Panich52
(5,829 posts)Hope to catch it all in repeat today.
nilram
(2,893 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)In this room, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, security personnel at the Defense Department's Cypress Hills Research Center keep constant watch on its scientists through O.B.I.T., a mysterious electronic device whose very existence was carefully kept from the public at large. And so it would have remained but for the facts you are about to witness
After a missing administrator is found and reveals his knowledge of O.B.I.T., its sinister, unearthly origins and purpose become apparent; the device is, in actuality, an alien invention that was designed to demoralize and desensitize the human race in preparation for invasion.
Closing narration[edit]
Agents of the Justice Department are rounding up the machines now. But these machines, these inventions of another planet, have been cunningly conceived to prey on our most mortal weakness. In the last analysis, dear friends, whether O.B.I.T. lives up to its name or not will depend on you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.B.I.T.
talk about fiction and reality ............geez
watch it here
https://archive.org/details/TheOuterLimits-Tos-1x07-O.b.i.t.avi_90
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)There is a belief by the ruling class that the rest of us animals out here will go apeshit on our own.
It comes from their nihilistic notion that they are the ones who OWN civilization and the rest of us are along for the ride.
They used to claim The Gods were watching us and they would punish us if we were bad by striking us down with lightning. Then it became one God who still has that supernatural power to "see all and know all" and who likes to burn us for an eternity if we're naughty.
Now the technology exists to grant the ruling class that which they could only bluff about before.
Authoritarian States keep a file on EVERYONE and some of those files are bulging.