1. 14:57 31st Jul 2011

    [This new technology] threatened a delicately balanced order of private secrets and public knowledge, in particular that boundary between what was to be kept privileged and what could be shared between oneself and society, oneself and one’s family, parents, servants, spouse, or sweetheart.
    — Carolyn Marvin, (1988). When Old Media Were New. Writing about the spread of the *telephone* in 1899, but sounding suspiciously like G+/Facebook.