[aminok]

Wonderful article.

Private knowledge is the most valuable economic resource that individuals have, and I believe this will become increasingly true as more narrow human functions become economically automated. To the extent that a small number of corporations and governments have access to it, while they maintain control over their own secrets, power will concentrate into the hands of a small percentage of the population.

Privacy is hard though. Individual market incentives do not lead to enough privacy-protecting technology being produced.