The author is right in the diagnosis, but as you showed, wrong in his prognosis. It's a serious problem and getting worse. I don't agree that when everyone has

The author is right in the diagnosis, but as you showed, wrong in his prognosis. It's a serious problem and getting worse. I don't agree that when everyone has dirt on everyone it all just nets to zero. Rather, that would be a sick society. Sure, one ought to reserve judgement, but in practice people usually crave judgement. For better or worse, we are categorising beasts. My alternative prognosis is much, much more data. Instead of unenforceable rules, I propose digital chaff. When everone has near infinite information on them from many and varied sources, if nearly all of it is bullshit only those already in the know can discern the truth and even then with rapidly diminishing confidence levels. Such chaff would poison many business models so it'd be a disruptive change. My proposal gets to the heart of the author's concern about the disparity between memory and storage, which I share.