It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. A decade ago the science fiction author David Brin published the Transparent It was his tale of two cities, set 20 years in the future. Brin had a vision, or rather he had two. He had foreseen, more clearly than most, the coming ubiquity of a “surveillance society” and he posited two very polarised outcomes. Brin decided to pose the reader a straight choice: Which of these two outcomes do you want? Brin told of two cities twenty years hence. From a distance both cities look very alike
