[saturncoleus]

If you have ever watched the TV show Black Mirror, it does an exploration of what it would be like to have instant access to know everything about a person by looking at them. The technology becomes a commodity and results in the destruction of personal relationships rather than a dystopian big brother society.

It seems to me that is a much more likely future than a criminal and government oppression future. Is one of them inevitable? Probably, but not any more than our present is someone else's future.

[AndrewKemendo]

Seems like you are implying that the stability of relationships is based on a lack of knowledge about someone.

In which case that speaks more towards the frailty of relationships rather than a problem of information.

[rpgmaker]

That is similar to the outcome that Asimov explores in The Dead Past[1] and like you he lets the government off the hook very easily, like it is a benevolent entity that won't exploit the technology already in the hands of the masses when we know this to be untrue. If technology reaches a point where it disrupts all personal relationships the government wouldn't be far behind creating the dystopian "big brother" society you speak of (which depending who you ask may have already been built).

[1] http://www.rednovels.net/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27323.html