> Yes. Yes. Yes. Why do you assume that's absurd? Why do you insist on keeping secrets? The world would be a lot better if all those things were communicated pu

> Yes. Yes. Yes. Why do you assume that's absurd? Why do you insist on keeping secrets? The world would be a lot better if all those things were communicated publicly. It is not absurd as a thought experiment, merely impossible to implement without sacrificing one of the defining aspects of our (global) culture. I won't rehash the many arguments fore and against the idea of total transparency — I'll leave that to the science fiction writers and activists — but the concept of privacy is so fundamental to our concept of self that I cannot imagine that people in a society without privacy would be happier. Personal opinion aside, your view is so radical, that the adoption of a technical solution such as the one you propose won't happen until the notion of total transparency gains more adherents. To do so you would have to come up with convincing answers to the (many!) arguments posited against the notion of total transparency; often formulated as the if you've got nothing to hide fallacy — which I believe applies here. We'll be very old or dead by the time society has shifted that far from its current believe in privacy — then you can start working on a technical solution (this may answer your initial question).