{"id":363,"date":"2015-10-08T17:05:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T22:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/?p=363"},"modified":"2015-10-08T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T22:05:48","slug":"slipping-by-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/2015\/10\/slipping-by-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipping by Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest themes in <em>Snowcrash<\/em> is privacy. There is virtually no privacy in the futuristic world in which the novel is set. Retinal scanners can capture even the minutest details of any passerby\u2019s life. In class we discussed the implications of this lack of privacy, and how our world seems to be heading in that direction. What I found interesting, however, was that privacy still exists, it has just been relegated to the Metaverse, where your avatar can \u201clook any way you want it to\u201d (33). The lack of surveillance is evidenced by the fact that the Nipponese man challenges Hiro to a sword fight, not knowing that he is the greatest sword fighter in the world. In the real world, even in today\u2019s world, everyone would know if there was a person as good at sword fighting as Hiro seems to be. Perhaps that\u2019s the way our world is moving too. As privacy wanes we will find an outlet, a place to be anonymous: online. We can already see evidence of this in games like World of Warcraft, or even with bloggers and tumblr users. Maybe something like the Metaverse is a necessary escape from a world in which nothing is private.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest themes in Snowcrash is privacy. There is virtually no privacy in the futuristic world in which the novel is set. Retinal scanners can capture even the minutest details of any passerby\u2019s life. In class we discussed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/2015\/10\/slipping-by-surveillance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}