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comment by WorLord
WorLord  ·  4056 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bro, Check Out These Tits; Google Glass and the Laws of Unintended Consequences

When I was growing up, we (me, my siblings, people in my class, etc.) were taught that if you weren't in your house with the drapes closed, you were In Public (TM), and should dress and act accordingly.

This reasonable expectation has obviously changed. I don't know exactly when, just that its been sometime in my life span. I don't know how people have begun to expect privacy in decidedly non-private situations, like restaurants and gyms and parks and buses... but they have. And I certainly do not understand why, as the slow march of technology has continually and quite loudly made things less, and not more, private.

If Google Glass can successfully kill what I can only understand as the ridiculous notion of Privacy-In-Public, the better off society will be. I think everyone could use a not-so-gentle reminder that the default (and only sensible) position is "not private unless you take drastic measures to be".