[throwaway19972]

It's no mistake that the rise of cyberpunk and postmodernism coincided with the collapse of competing ideologies to market capitalism. As Capital killed its enemies, you see belief in humanity and its ideals in art go up in smoke.

Personally, I find computers to be harbingers of doom. Not essentially, of course, but it's pretty clear at this point we're not going to see the potential of the technology we already have realized within my lifetime, but we will see a good deal of the predicted use to abuse people. Hell, we already see much of it.

[kortilla]

Blaming capitalism doesn’t make any sense because it’s a different axis. The security vs privacy debate is quite old and different societies handle the trade completely independently of how capitalistic their economy is.

[ziddoap]

>completely independently

Well, certainly not completely independently.

The fact that you can make more money when people have less privacy plays a part in the decision-making process.