Philobiblon

A remarkably sensible and well-though-out piece about the end of privacy – the children growing up on MySpace, YouTube et al.

The one thing missing from this piece is an exploration of the historical and cross-cultural dimensions. Privacy is a very Western concept, and it might come to be a concept thought of as an oddity, one exhibited in a few states of a few centuries.

No, I’m not very comfortable with that concept, but then I’m a child of the 20th-century West (and an only child at that!)