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Young people log their lives with hourly True Confessions. Cops wear lapel-cams and spy agencies peer at us -- and face defections and whistle blowers. Bank records leak and "uncrackable" firewalls topple. As we debate internet privacy, revenge porn, the NSA, and Edward Snowden, cameras get smaller, faster, and more numerous.

Has Orwell's Big Brother finally come to pass? Or have we become a global society of thousands of Little Brothers -- watching, judging, and reporting on one another?

Partnering with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and inspired by Brin's nonfiction book, The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?, noted author and futurist David Brin and scholar Stephen W. Potts have compiled essays and short stories from writers such as Robert J. Sawyer, James Morrow, William Gibson, Damon Knight, Jack McDevitt, and many others to examine the benefits and pitfalls of technological transparency in all its permutations.

Among the many questions...

Do we answer surveillance with sousveillance, shining accountability upward?

Will we spiral into busybody judgmentalism? Or might people choose to leave each other alone?

Will empathy increase or decrease in a more transparent world?

What if we could own our information, and buy and sell it in a web bazaar?

Table of Contents:

• "Introduction: Private Lives" (2016) essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn] [Tor.com, December 2016]

Ad Justitiam Per Lucem

• "Mine, Yours, Ours" (2017) short story by Jack Skillingstead
• "Insistence of Vision" (2013) short story by David Brin [Twelve Tomorrows]
• "Planetbound" (2017) short story by Nancy Fulda
• "The Right's Tough" (2004) short story by Robert J. Sawyer [Visions of Liberty]
• "The Circuit Riders" (1962) short story by R. C. FitzPatrick [Analog, April 1962]
• "The Werewolves of Maplewood" (2017) short story by James Morrow
• "The Road to Oceania" (2003) essay by William Gibson [The New York Times, 2003]

Surveillance--Sousveillance

• "I See You" (1976) short story by Damon Knight [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1976]
• "Eyejacked" (2017) short story by David Walton
• "FeastWar" (2016) short story by Vylar Kaftan [Tor.com, December 2016]
• "Your Lying Eyes" (2017) short story by Jack McDevitt
• "The Disaster Stack" (revised version, 2017) short story by Vernor Vinge (original version available to read for free here)

Lies And Private Lives

• "First Presentation" (2017) short story by Aliette de Bodard
• "AfterShift Memories" (2017) short story by David Ramirez
• "Spew" (1994) short story by Neal Stephenson [WIRED Magazine, 1994 and Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing, 2012]
• "Private Life in Cyberspace" (1991) essay by John Perry Barlow [Communications of the ACM, June 1991]

Big Brother, Little Brother, Village

• "Elderjoy" (2016) short story by Gregory Benford [Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2016]
• "Street Life in the Emerald City" (2017) short story by Brenda Cooper
• "The Eyes Have It" (2017) short story by Stephen W. Potts

No Place To Hide

• "Preferences" (2017) short story by Cat Rambo
• "Vectors" (2017) short story by Stephen Gaskell
• "Public Domain" (2017) short story by Scott Sigler
• "To See the Invisible Man" (1963) short story by Robert Silverberg [Worlds of Tomorrow, April 1963]
• "The Disconnected" (2017) short story by Ramez Naam

Looking Back... And Looking Up

• "Eminence" (2017) short story by Karl Schroeder
• "Sport" (2014) short story by Kathleen Ann Goonan [Exit Strategies, New Scientist]
• "Elephant on Table" (2017) short story by Bruce Sterling
• "Afterword: A Tsunami of Light" (2017) essay by David Brin

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