Edited by author 03-14-2003 05:39 PM
Presumably IBM will now be promoting those "gurus" amongst their staff who spam their colleagues email, pass on "jokes", recipes, and viruses or engage in flame wars, all of which should boost their "social network" score.

Almost every police force and intelligence agency in Europe uses similar "intelligence visualisation" software which can automatically process your emails, phone logs, informer denunciations etc etc into "friendship trees" e.g. http://www.i2group.com/applications/proactive.html

Yes, you too can suffer from "guilt by association" if you belong to the wrong Mosque or drink in the wrong bar, pay cash for your Delta Airlines ticket etc all of which raise your secret police "zapiska" score above a certain (secret) level.