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Our future is small computers + high speed internet available everywhere + online storage and services. Not the other way around.

There's a massive backlash against this now that we find it's a recipe for Big Brother.



As much as I am discomforted by continued erosion of privacy and as much as I intend to try and keep mine intact as possible, I think this backlash will come to essentially nothing. Convenience is too great so people would just gradually learn to live in a world where mostly anything you do is public unless you go to great lengths to hide it. For the next generation, it just would be the new norm and I don't think we can do much about it. We can try to minimize harm done to civil liberties, etc. but I don't think we can prevent the change from happening.




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