Comments on: Real names, real problems http://tomorrowstransactions.com/2012/08/real-names-real-problems/ Thought leadership from Consult Hyperion Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:21:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: Wendy M. Grossmanhttp://tomorrowstransactions.com/2012/08/real-names-real-problems/#comment-332 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:22:18 +0000 http://ec2-54-201-142-57.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/2012/08/real-names-real-problems/#comment-332 The notion of a society with only a few allowable names was explored pretty thoroughly in Ira Levin’s This Perfect Day, which seems to me an unjustly forgotten book because there are a lot of developments now that remind me of that book. It was somewhat in the vein of 1984: a dystopia with mass surveillance and control (in Levin, the population was drugged in their food to suppress both revolution and sexuality) and wore government-issued coveralls; the thing I really remember was they all wore bracelets they held up for scanners to read whenever they wanted to go anywhere, buy anything, do anything. There were 4 male and 4 female names (I don’t remember the female ones, but the male ones included Jesus and Karl (for Marx)), followed by a number.

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