In "The Naked Crowd," acclaimed author Jeffrey Rosen makes an
impassioned argument about how to preserve freedom, privacy, and
security in a post-9/11 world. How we use emerging technologies, he
insists, will be crucial to the preservation of essential American
ideals.
In our zeal to catch terrorists and prevent future catastrophic
events, we are going too far--largely because of irrational
fears--and violating essential American freedoms. That's the
contention at the center of this persuasive new polemic by Jeffrey
Rosen, legal affairs editor of "The New Republic," which builds on
his award-winning book "The Unwanted Gaze."
Through wide-ranging reportage and cultural analysis, Rosen argues
that it is possible to strike an effective and reasonable balance
between liberty and security. Traveling from England to Silicon
Valley, he offers a penetrating account of why well-designed laws
and technologies have not always been adopted. Drawing on a broad
range of sources--from the psychology of fear to the latest Code
Orange alerts and airport security technologies--he also explores
the reasons that the public, the legislatures, the courts, and
technologists have made feel-good choices that give us the illusion
of safety without actually making us safer. He describes the
dangers of implementing poorly thought out technologies that can
make us less free while distracting our attention from responses to
terrorism that might work.
Rosen also considers the social and technological reasons that the
risk-averse democracies of the West continue to demand
ever-increasing levels of personal exposure in a search for an
illusory and emotional feeling of security. In Web logs, chat
rooms, and reality TV shows, an increasing number of citizens
clutter the public sphere with private revelations best kept to
themselves. The result is the peculiar ordeal of living in the
Naked Crowd, in which few aspects of our lives are immune from
public scrutiny. With vivid prose and persuasive analysis, "The
Naked Crowd" is both an urgent warning about the choices we face in
responding to legitimate fears of terror and a vision for a better
future.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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