At a Technology conference in Lake Tahoe, Bill Gates made a prediction that the best education will come from the web in 5 years. Nicholas Negroponte also said that the physical book will be obsolete in 5 years. He compared paper books transition to their digital counterparts to the music and film industry of a few decades ago.

Tools such as language, and then the written alphabet are now taken for granted, and we see no problem with relying on these tools, and being dependent on them to live. The next step in this evolution may involve encompassing everything around us into the Internet. But where’s the privacy, and why doesn’t the idea of losing all control of privacy scare the jeebies out of everyone?