Langdon Winner

At the start of the 21st century, three issues of great international concern are: the surveillance state, self-surveillance (or Panopticism) and the “rhizome� paradigm of power and human sociability that is mobile and cannot be located. (NMR, 587) Langdon Winner’s interpretation of new media is that the idealistic, utopian view that the information age will produce a better life for humans is an exaggerated myth. Winner explains the misunderstanding, or “Mythinformation� of assuming that our movement from an industrial society to an information society will make the differences between the wealthy and the poor “evaporate.�