I can say "creepy" ... e.g. sooner or later, anytime I walk outside, there's going to be one or more microsats "watching" me. Yeah, I know it's "nothing personal" ... today.
Makes me wonder about adding "Procure a personal ASAT system" to my dream list for the future.
That sort of creepiness, privacy concerns or whatnot are valid, but I think they almost need to be isolated out of such conversations.
The world is changing fast with all sorts of relevance in that realm. I think it's almost futile for us to try and comprehend how this stuff will work and how we feel about it. History is often notionally zeroed at the invention of written records. The king of an illiterate realm is prehistoric while Nebuchadnezzar or Hammurabi are historic rulers, leaving behind an intentional record from their times.
There are people today with thousands of hours of HD video and audio records. Facebook photos. HN debates. You can know who they are and how they think, to an extent, from those records. Their great grandchildren will be able to too. This is getting stronger. The quantity and quality of information being recorded is enormous. You might call it post-history. The period abbot which our level of knowledge is as complete as it is about the present.
I think it's the kind of great change that can't be understood from foresight.
