Yes and privacy problems are still real issues especially as privacy rights are continuously eroded every single day. Just because you wanted something in your

Yes and privacy problems are still real issues especially as privacy rights are continuously eroded every single day. Just because you wanted something in your pocket to solve all your problems, doesn't mean everyone else did. Many of us wanted a great tool, not a buddy or advisor or mind-reader. Every technological development has many possible routes it can follow, it can't follow them all. And you will inevitably be disappointed at some of the routes it takes. Can you imagine what it must be like to be Richard Stallman or Ted Nelson with a clearly articulated vision of the future but so many things go the other way?