[Extra] Synopticon

Synopticon

Philosopher Bentham in the UK, presented the concept of the panopticon system to monitor all in one. In addition, the philosopher Michel Foucault in France, was the panopticon metaphor to modern capitalist society in the "Monitoring and punishment" book. There is a watchtower in the middle Panopticon, bright cell in the form of solitary confinement of prisoners surround around its circumference, the prisoners' s structure that can not see the guards and dark watchtower. Therefore, I do not know whether there are guards of watchtowers, and the prisoners will be controlled by yourself to it accordingly.

Applying this principle, it was the "Panopticon system. On the other hand, is Shinopukon, Foucault, open cyber world as that goes one step further from this panopticon power who" to monitor the thousands of people modern capitalist society, not a one-sided monitoring, era that can be cross-monitoring that he appeared. 

In other words, the development of the Internet, such as by active civic movement, at the turn of the information society, modern society has changed in Synopticon monitoring unilateral basis a panopticon. That is, what is not a system that dominated the media and the power of a handful as in the past, controls the dozen civilians, monitor the authorities that the general public also to monitor themselves, that control.