Ordering Pizza in a Total Surveillance Society

[Terry Johnson]

ACLU has a great flash movie on their site that presents a scenario from the not-too-distant future in which a poor bloke tries to order his favorite take-out pizza. It's so dead-on that it's actually more depressing and disturbing than funny. Take a look -- it's only a few minutes long. Be sure to pay attention to the info presented on the pizzaria's computer monitor!

http://aclu.org/pizza/

[LHoong]

It's so dead-on that it's actually more depressing and disturbing than funny. Take a look -- it's only a few minutes long. Be sure to pay attention to the info presented on the pizzaria's computer monitor!

Scary. 

Even more scary: the Pizzaria's using Windoze to get the info.

Lee.

[Christina Wellman]

Wow, we need to have a AMUG movie....ummmm didn't we already start on that?

 

[Michael Henigan]

OMG, that is both too funny and too life like.   Seems when you call for Pizza know they have everything stored and they knwo who you are and hwo to get into your complex.

[Martha Shannon]

Okay, two things:
1. the paranoid side of me (yes, I'm an X Files generation gal), when I first saw "the net" with Sandra Bullock - I was so hooked and really think that this is/could be happening to me. But I still order my pizza online - its called cookies

2. in response to Mike's comment about knowing how to get into the complex; coming from a property manager standpoint, we have delivery drivers come into the leasing office on a regular basis to both distribute flyers and to find out the layout of the complex so that they can be more efficient in their deliveries. I like this for the fact that I know my residents will be happy to get their pizza on time (or chinese), but I TRUST NO ONE and sometimes the delivery drivers are CREEPY!