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The idea of Panopticon, a “perfect prison”, as conceived by English utilitarian Jeremy Bentham in 1785, uses ideas similar to those that make Wikis work.

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“Morals reformed — health preserved — industry invigorated — instruction diffused — public burthens lightened — Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock — the gordian knot of the poor-law not cut, but untied — all by a simple idea in Architecture!” – Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon, In Miran Bozovic (ed.), The Panopticon Writings, London: Verso, 1995, 29-95.

“I will be the gaoler. You will see […] that the gaoler will have no salary — will cost nothing to the nation.” – Jeremy Bentham

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