This 18th century prison design predicted the rise of our surveillance society

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We think about surveillance – from big tech and governments using gadgets to snoop on individuals to CCTV cameras – as a contemporary phenomenon.

It's not.

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In fact, surveillance – and the knowledge that because we are being watched we should act a certain way – is one of the foundations upon which the modern world was built. And it all started with an 18th century prison design, popularised as a metaphor for our surveillance society by French philosopher Michel Foucault. Read more...

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