| > there are winners and losers Currently, we are the losers, our governments are the winners. > The winners have a strong economic incentive to keep their communication private, as has been the case throughout human history. That's exactly how our govt functions today. > This group of people might decide to release everyone's data in order to appease your desire for a post-privacy utopia, but almost certainly they'll keep it for their economic advantage. True, but we are still at the cusp of applications that pay users for using the application and for their info, which could also be made public, but as you said, might not happen. > The resulting system you are advocating is one in which a tiny percentage of people has near-universal control over the populace. That's what we have today. Please understand this, the future he is proposing is at worst as bad as what we have today and at best, so much better. |