Are we cavemen with computers?

I wondered from the start if Bernie Goldbach was winding people up with his views on furtive podcast recording. He is afterall a Director of Digital Rights Ireland. Catching up on the debate that started here Bernie says - "the real issue–who is watching the watchers watch you?"

That would be sousveillance which, as Wikipedia explains...

"... refers to the recording or monitoring of real or apparent authority figures by others, particularly those who are generally the subject of surveillance. Steve Mann, who coined the term, describes it as 'watchful vigilance from underneath'."

Is sousveillance the ultimate destiny of a podcatching, youtubing, lifecaching society? In a post about Lifelogging Mark Wallace urges us to...

"... think of the cave paintings at Lascaux, which are thought to be more than 10,000 years old and are often cited as one of the earliest example of the human impulse to art... But what if these are less art than an early example of the human impulse to history, to record oneself through whatever means are at hand, and in that act to somehow create a representation of identity (individual or collective) that’s not unlike the identity we create online through tools like MySpace or in virtual worlds?

Which brings me to pose the question - are we all just cavemen with computers?

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[Matt Terenzio]

Of course. But we are not all A-list cavemen.