panopticon
a building, as a prison, hospital, library, or the like, so arranged that all parts of the interior are visible from a single point.
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How to use panopticon in a sentence
If the alien is, in fact, always watching them from inside that cloud, then the Haywoods’ ranch starts to feel a bit like a panopticon—a central observation tower within a ring of prison cells.
In these systems, facial recognition becomes just one part of an apparatus that can identify people by a range of techniques, fusing personal information across connected databases into a sort of data panopticon.
This company says it’s developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA | Tate Ryan-Mosley | January 31, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewPrivacy advocates had justified concerns about the Google-adjacent company’s ability to capture a near-total amount of data from the residents of the development or any city-dweller that wandered into its high-tech panopticon.
The built environment will be one of tech’s next big platforms | Jonathan Shieber | December 24, 2020 | TechCrunchThe panopticon is usually considered an abstract idea, but in fact I lived in one.
He spent 16 years of his mostly 18th century life designing the panopticon, which was to be the ideal disciplinary institution.
The panopticon By Jenni Fagan A teenage heroine is sent to a reformatory in this dystopian novel.
How have we gotten so comfortable with the panopticon state in little more than a decade?
In his dissent, Scalia warns of such a “genetic panopticon.”
It had struck him that an application of his panopticon would give the required panacea.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. | Leslie StephenHad any other king been on the throne, panopticon in both 'the prisoner branch and the pauper branch' would have been set at work.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. | Leslie StephenThe panopticon, as defined by its inventor to Brissot, was a 'mill for grinding rogues honest, and idle men industrious.'
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. | Leslie StephenMeanwhile Bentham, meditating profoundly upon the panopticon, had at last found out that he had begun at the wrong end.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. | Leslie StephenDuring this period Bentham was also occupied with the panopticon, and some writings refer to it.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. | Leslie Stephen
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