But the term surveillance society does have connotations that at least hint at possible negative consequences, in ways that unambiguously optimistic … - David Lyon

How long can surveillance theory ignore the implications of this? It seems entirely appropriate to add to the surveillance impetuses of the nation state, capitalism and bureaucracy, the imperatives of an implicit cultural commitment to omniperception. [...] The driving desire to dragnet yet more detailed data is both as old and as ominous as the aspiration to be "as God".

The panopticon produces subjects with desires to improve their inner lives. In contrast the superpanopticon constitutes objects, individuals with dispersed identities, who may remain unaware of how those identities are construed by the computer. We are once again back with disappearing bodies.

Comint represents the effort to gain access to, intercept and process every important modern form of communication, in every significant sphere, and in many countries.