> I speculate that, in a world of total transparency, things like this will become much less important as everyone realizes how weird nearly everyone is. We've

> I speculate that, in a world of total transparency, things like this will become much less important as everyone realizes how weird nearly everyone is. We've done this before and it doesn't work that way. Back in Colonial New England, say Massachusetts in the latter 1600s, nearly everyone in a given small town would be essentially 'transparent' to pretty much everyone else. There was so little room, and so few people, that there wasn't space to have much privacy. And social norms were horrible. You couldn't get away with being of the wrong religion, with being suspected of adultery, or a lot of things that are either ignored or not considered problems now. People didn't learn to accept others. They forced others to conform. And the revelations never stopped being interesting to those who enforced conformity.