Surveillance

Guy Fawkes, Friedrich Nietzsche and now, Anonymous. The shape-shifting cyber vigilantes are ever-present wherever there is a stir in the people, thriving amidst chaos, evading classification and baffling their opponents with their coded logic.

Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired, espouses technological determinism—the perspective that certain technologies have inherent qualities that are destined to become increasingly manifest, evoking a technological entropy of sorts.

Beyond the headlines of targeted killings and privacy issues lies a story of a technology rife with possibility as it enters into our everyday life, for better or for worse.