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> Privacy is basically a historical accident belonging to the few hundred years in the west where transportation tech got ahead of information technology. I do
by antidoh 14y ago
> Privacy is basically a historical accident belonging to the few hundred years in the west where transportation tech got ahead of information technology.
I don't think privacy should be dictated by whatever is possible with technology, it should be explicitly decided by people. Whichever way they decide.
- wpietri 14y agoSure, but the way it was historically decided by most people was a position of little or no privacy. In a small town, everybody knows everybody's business. It's only urbanization, which only works because of good transportation, that made that untenable. So those of us who like privacy finally had some. But information technology is making it possible for people to keep track of basically everybody they care to again. So we're going to go right back to what most people like, which is life as soap opera.