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Image from OMNI magazine, circa 1980, artist unattributed (via Mass Mirage)

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“A Helpful Venn Diagram” by Dave Hoffman, providing a nice reminder of the degree of privacy on the net.

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On the title of this post: Erik has been watching a lot of cyberpunkish movies for game research lately, which means I have, too. Among these is Ghost in the Shell, in which a cyborg quotes parts of verses 11 and 12 of 1 Corinthians 13. This includes the phrase “For now we see through a glass, darkly,” which you’ve likely heard referenced in other bits of popular culture. In some translations this is followed by “but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.”

I will admit to not really understanding its context in the movie (if you’ve seen it, you know how hard it is to grasp on the first go, especially if, like me, you haven’t read the manga), but it was interesting to be presented with it in the context of technology. In ways, it seems to speak to the current state of the net: we have never known so much, and we have never been able to conceal so little.