Thesis

1. The implicit understanding of all web and technology based companies is that their progress is unlimited. Efficiency, applicability and ease-of-use are constantly expanding to encompass more of our lives with minimal effort.

2. Social-networking is an extension of this. The more efficient it becomes, the more inclusive it becomes. No generation hereafter will be without it, absent cataclysms ,which, for the purpose of this exercise, will not be assumed.

3. As inclusion increases, the public-private dichotomy shrinks.

This means a few things:

1. Accountability is absolute. Politicians, celebrities and- to a lesser extent- non public figures, are held to documented statements, media, and criticism that are ever more invasive.

2. Government becomes the mediator. Regulation of the internet will become more apparent as its effect on the character of citizens become evermore entwined within its scheme.

3. This is a direct reflection of capitalism's method of dispersal, with both good and bad, ethical and unethical implications. Its distinction from traditional capitalism, however, is in the level of intrusion.

In short, as we document our lives on the web, we hold ourselves forever accountable to a technology that we trust in, depend on and must answer to.

how is this different from slavery?


thoughts on this would be appreciated.