We Americans are such hypocrites. We say loudly that we love our individual privacy, but we would sell it all for fifty cents.

With just your name, I can already find out more about you that your mother knows about you! Think about that for a minute. It scares the hell out of me!

It’s not optional. Imagine some big fat cop kicks open your door at 3AM and demands you get up and play baseball in your front yard. Huh? What? I’m sleeping, you say, and don’t even like baseball. So what, you ask? We want your data! If you don’t understand that, then you’re stupid and need to shut up!

Wait, that’s not the worst part of this trend. With AI, the mathematical probability of my thoughts are known to that great computer in the sky.

I am fortunate to live on a beach and love walking on the beach, especially in the morning, when it is quiet and peaceful. I feel like an free autonomous individual in the universe, but I’m not. The great computer in the sky knows me better than my mother.

Does it matter? Damn right, it does!

Go read the iconic book 1984 !