Panopticon Singularity essay from Whole Earth Review

The article I wrote for Whole Earth Review is now online on my website. You can find it here: The Panopticon Singularity. I wrote it in a spirit of contrarianism after seeing who else was on the list of contributors; I'm not a Bill Joy style singularity-phobe, but I do worry that we might be on course for one of these. (Quick, somebody reassure me!)