The Atom, also known as the Panopticon, is the venue for this weekend's weather watch. Resting on the hillside above Wycoller ...

All was not lost, however. For in 1978 the French philosopher Michel Foucault revived interest in the panopticon idea with the latter’s publication of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.

No Panopticon was ever built, partly because they really did not have the technology to permit seeing without being seen. Since we do now, you can see where this is going.

But there is also a risk inherent in the IoT: we risk building a new network that will commodify another huge chunk of human experience -- gather it up, scrutinise it, slice it and dice it, and ...

Panopticon as a Service (PaaS) Capitalism, we're taught, works by supply and demand duking it out in the market. Where there's demand, eventually there will be a supply.

Last week Wikileaks--remember them?--released a sheaf of documents about the Trapwire security system, which, depending on who you believe, is either a network of cameras being used to spy on ...

The Panopticon looms in a big crescent at the end of a long driveway. It's four floors high, two turrets on either side and a peak in the middle — that'll be where the watchtower is.

For Foucault, the panopticon illustrated the functioning of the "disciplinary apparatuses" characteristic of modern societies—a category in which he included not only prisons, ...

The airborne panopticon: How plane-mounted cameras watch entire cities Persistent Surveillance Systems can watch 25 sq. miles—for hours.

The Panopticon White House. June 24, 2007 / 2:00 PM EDT / Political Animal THE PANOPTICON WHITE HOUSE....There's nothing wrong with the fact that Dick Cheney is a powerful vice president. Jimmy ...

In an age of overcriminalization and a police state eager to flex its muscles in a show of power, we are all guilty of some transgression or other.