It will be interesting to see how this further affects our society as public anonymity starts really going away. I have been reading The Great Gatsby. There w

It will be interesting to see how this further affects our society as public anonymity starts really going away. I have been reading The Great Gatsby. There was an interesting moment in the book where Gatsby shows the main character a medal from the war as well as a photo of him in Oxford. THAT was how he proved that he went to Oxford. Nowadays, if you want to know where someone went to school you'd do a quick search and take the first thing you find. If you are more diligent you'd dig deeper. It's also very clear that Gatsby treasures his anonymity and the reputation he's built around being mysterious. The reason I bring this up, is that it represents (in my mind) an indicator that there is an argument to be made that public anonymity has already changed so much in the past 20 years. Granted there were still ways of verifying all of this information before it was just a lot slower. This post just stirred up some thoughts that I had this morning while reading. The internet more drastically technology have changed our culture so much it's almost impossible to realize the effect. Just thought I'd share some musings I had this morning that tied into the current topic.