“You have
zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” declared tech guru Scott McNealy
back in 1999. Fifteen years later McNealy’s statement is no longer
factually controversial. We all give up gigabytes of personal
information to Facebook, Foursquare, Google, AT&T—and that’s
just the voluntary stuff. In the past year, former government
contractor Edward Snowden has revealed that our own government has
been engaging in pervasive domestic spying, keeping track of
everyone we’ve called, for how long we spoke, and from where.
Privacy looks increasingly like a quaint mid-20th century
relic.
Ronald Bailey reviews The Naked
Future: What Happens in a World That
Anticipates Your Every Move?, by Futurist Deputy
Editor Patrick Tucker. The book explores a more positive take on
how we can personally use the megabytes of information generated
and collected by our digital paraphernalia to help us live smarter,
healthier, and better lives, and maybe even regain some measure of
privacy.
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