Essay

IN THE audaciously predictable style for which he is famous, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently enthused about the many ways in which "transparency" has made our "global discussion .so much richer." The theory was that surveillance 24 / 7 wrought by camera phones, blogs, YouTube, Face Book and My Space have made us all public figures. Because everything we say or do is now able to run on the Internet potentially with humiliating results .we must now live our lives more wisely, knowing that in the new "transparent" age, he There's nowhere to hide. Not long ago, such a ...