It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.
Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.
It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.
I believe people can move things with their minds.
Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.