In <Pine.3.05.9308231918.D23466-b100000@stein.u.washington.edu> Steven Hodas <hhll@u.washington.edu> writes: Actually Burroughs...
"Overpopulation has led to ever-increasing governmental control over the private citizen, not on the old-style police-state models of oppression and terror, but in terms of work, credit, housing, retirement benefits, and medical care: things which can be withheld. These services are computerized. No number, no service. However, this has not produced the
From _Blade Runner (a movie)_, William S. Burroughs, 1979, Blue Wind Press
Actually I have work, credit, housing, retirement benefits, and medical care and they don't have my (right) numbers. Mostly they don't have any numbers. It is all still possible. Duncan Frissell Practicing & Preaching Privacy since at least 1969.