“Meet your descendants. They don’t know what it’s like to be involuntarily lost, don’t understand what we mean by the word “privacy”, and will have access (sooner or later) to a historical representation of our species that defies understanding. They live in a world where history has a sharply-drawn start line, and everything they individually do or say will sooner or later be visible to everyone who comes after them, forever. They are incredibly alien to us.”
And from Dave, a commenter from the excellent article:
“Forget privacy, just not being connected all the time to your social circle is going to be a rare and [traumatic] event. Having anything we would call a “private” life isn’t going to be a quaint notion, it’s going to be a terrifying perversion.”
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