All too true. One reason I wouldn't have a cell phone. People have made a bargain with pervasive technology. In return for the dubious convenience of being always connected, always on camera, you pay a price when government and corporations (increasingly the same entity) use it for control. Wait until every item you purchase come equipped with an RFID tracking tag. But of course "they" wouldn't use that information for anything other than benign purposes would they? I think Orwell was only off in his timing about 20 years. Singular3D, it's always interesting to hear how things are different in Europe--more different all the time.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken