>really prefer a world where we can be heads up, aware of each other, aware of the world about us, casually participatory with each other as we go about. It's s

>really prefer a world where we can be heads up, aware of each other, aware of the world about us, casually participatory with each other as we go about. It's such a waste of personage, of society, when people keep to themselves, wrap themselves in their tight knit world, shut themselves off to the world Very well said, but far more than a mere preference, I feel that interconnection is the engine driving our cultural and societal evolution and progress. Our paradigm shifts occur at the crossroads where different cultures and ideas freely intermingle. This is why the encroachment of mass surveillance will lead to a cul-de-sac for humanity. Radical inclusivity leads to the opposite of 1984...