On the Nature of #privacy
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(De rerum secretum)A song to read to.January 28th is Data Privacy DayExponential trends are incredibly difficult for human beings to rationalise. By now, most people are more or less aware that we are fast approaching a critical threshold of increasing complexity from which we are unlikely to return. But what does that mean?Mankind’s ability to manipulate his environment with increasing proficiency has accelerated us through major evolutionary checkpoints with terrifying speed. Our ability to store, specialise in, and exchange knowledge is the Gutenbergian cheat code behind this. The fact that we must map these rates of change logarithmically is mind-blowing. The Hunter Gatherer Age lasted several million years; The Agricultural Age, several thousand years; The Industrial Age, several (...)
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