It is obvious that the barriers to sharing and openness are going to come tumbling down, world wide. The combination of easy accessibility and blinding speed give billions of us the force. In my opinion this is good. In a family, a small social group, or a company one of the ways we judge the success of the group is by its openness. In other words, by the extent to which the members are willing to be open with each other rather than insisting on more than a modicum of privacy.
Openness does, in fact, have limits.
No one is teaching mind reading 1A as yet. It is obvious, I believe, that what started out in the beginning as a method or tool enabling scientists to share information more rapidly and openly, has become a mandate to share, communicate and understand each other as one world, one people, one race, celebrating our individual differences and our uniquenesses but without the foolish distinctions we have made in the past. I feel that this will, after a shake-down, be the healthiest thing that could have happened to us in our long history as humans. It might even lead to our being able to cooperate in caring for, cherishing and protecting this lovely world we live in. All rights reserved.