The Panopticon is a type of building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates of an institution without them being able to tell whether or not they are being watched. Very much like the species that cannot be remembered. I wonder if the writers were at all influenced by Bentham? The idea of a panopticon is also found in a series of books called The Traveler written by John Twelve Hawks. In which a secret organization seeks to put the entire world in an ideological and economic cage with out the masses being aware of it.
