From Bentham to steps and smartphones

In his Deontology (1834), Jeremy Bentham anticipates our world of “steps” and smartphones:

A whole kingdom, the great globe itself, will become a gymnasium, in which every man exercises himself before the eyes of every other man. Every gesture, every turn of limb or feature, in those whose motions have a visible influence on the general happiness, will be noticed and marked down.


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