Spilled Milk

I sometimes like to imagine a world in which privacy doesn’t exist.

Let’s say, that at any point in time, you could open up your laptop, and see a livestream of anyone in the world. Anyone in the world. At any time.

At the same time, anyone in the world can open their laptop, and see a livestream version of you. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing – sleeping, eating, masturbating, speaking on the phone – it’s all available to watch.

Let’s also say that this website has unlimited storage of video and you can go back to any time of a persons life. For example, I could re-watch my little league home run, or verify whether or not my interviewee took magic mushrooms before speaking with me.

And for our hypothetical world, lets also imagine that all the video is high quality, and there’s multiple angles. As much as possible, I want to eliminate any ability to “hide” or any blindspots. In our hypothetical world, there are no blindspots.

Okay, so we have our world established – let’s see where it takes us.