And Rohit's lost like 32. For those of you who don't know him, Quittner is like the Bizarro-Superman to Simson Garfinkel's Superduperman. Think of Quittner as the news director for the Pathfinder Web site, a guy who hobnobs with the goober smoochers at Wired magazine. Whereas Garfinkel is the canonical NeXT Man for all Seasons, a young fresh fellow who can gaze into the looking glass fifty years ahead and give you a respectable vision of where your privacy will be a half century from now. We have very unstable notions about the boundaries of the individual.
Memoirs top the best-seller lists, with books about incest and insanity and illness leading the way.
Perfect strangers at cocktail parties speak of the most disturbing details of their upbringings. The rich, of course, can afford to screen themselves. When mainframes gave way to internetworked desktop computers, data that were once carefully hidden may now be only a few keystrokes away. Real privacy as we've known it, is fleeting. So here comes the Kelly quote.