Marc Smith of Microsoft Research implies that the future of social networking is going to be increasingly telling about the way people live their private lives - publicly. "It's a great time to be a sociologist . . . our society is not going to be recognizable in ten or twenty years." He speaks of "myspace as a new kind of body adornment . . . a fundamental shift that hasn't been seen in millennia." Social network profiles will be emitted from our bodies, he claims, in a way that makes information that we choose public in a way never thought possible. It makes sense, as most people love to talk about themselves. Why not have an ongoing conversation with everyone who cares to view it?
A chilling take on Big Brother 2.0...
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