The author completely underestimates the ability of the human brain to adapt. Brains have changed very little, if at all, during written history yet the way of

The author completely underestimates the ability of the human brain to adapt. Brains have changed very little, if at all, during written history yet the way of life, daily habits and attention have changed wholesale multiple times. Brain is in fact too adaptive for history to catch up with it. > Our concern for privacy has its evolutionary roots in the need to maintain boundaries between the self and others, for safety and security. Safety distance from conspecifics is not privacy, most animals don't hide from view when having sex etc. In fact being out of view is anxiety-inducing since it means danger - they 're too far from the herd. Humans too, dont live like hermits, but they form tight villages. Privacy had more to do with protecting one's property (which for most of history included his family). The modern idea of privacy as independence-from-others was wholly enabled by technology which allows people to be independent from each other Sharing is social signaling, it's what we ve done since forever