Production Power and the Panopticon

On the other hand, the production and economic model that produced these books is the opposite. The books were produced and sold for money in a system of control similar to a Panopticon (The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the "sentiment of an invisible omniscience.") The Panoptic power system exists in the economic production of the Choose Your Own Adventure book only when the user chooses not to share with other users who have other books. The producer owns the power because they produce the content for a charge. Open-source can be compared to lending the books you paid for to you best friend or neighbor. The knowledge and information is then transfered for free and the user has the options of accepting or denying the content. The sharing of the books destroys the power held by the producer of the Choose Your Own Adventure with in production.