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Name: Salam Tims
From: Florida
Bio: 35 Years as Systems Analyst, PC/Net (ARPANET) user since early 80s, writer/filmmaker
Area of Expertise: Author/Editor/Journalist
Topic: Privacy
Headline: Privacy Fades Out as Transparency Fades In
Nutshell: Everyone is online all the time and all "walls" (fire and other) are transparent semi-permeable membranes.
Vision:The combination of globally integrated databases and networks, microminiaturization (even without nanotech), wideband wireless, and-ultimately-biotech implants, will put everyone online all the time. Privacy will become a quaint concept.
Your entire life, including your medical history (including your current state), police records, employment history, and your exact present physical whereabouts will be an open, online, e-book, instantly referenced by anyone who cares to look. (Unofficial) crime will become obsolete. Personal disclosure will be at best discretionary and at worst involuntary. Personal freedom will either be total or extinct depending on other social factors beyond the Net itself.
Date Submitted: November 10, 2004
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