The popular saying "You get on a brick and get dizzy" is used to describe people who, upon receiving a bit of power, ...

In one of the first, if not the first, lectures, I remember our lecturer looking intently at us and telling us about the Ring of Gyges. Mentioned by the philosopher Plato in book two of his ...

For example, in The Republic, Plato asks readers to imagine a ring, such as the one presented in the myth of Gyges, that makes you invisible, and poses the question: What would you do if you had such ...

So far, so good. But how does anonymity go bad? The digital ring of gyges In Plato's Republic, the character Glaucon tells the story of the Ring of Gyges, which makes its wearer invisible.