Good perspective on things. There is so much information being collected about us at all times and so much already stored. Most people think Google is a search engine company. WRONG! I worked for them...

They are a marketing company. They sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of information to companies for purposes of targeted ads, just to use one example.

It is almost annoying to visit some web sites and then find that the ads that are coming up on other web sites are coincidentally related to the other things you were just looking at.

I really do wonder what will happen when people or Google or Facebook or the various other collectors of information figure out even better ways to create personal profiles of us. As technology advances, I wonder if it will become part of our permanent history that a future family genealogist could look at to learn about his long gone relative.

1984 has happened. Traffic cams are now turned into surveillance cameras daily now for solving crimes, for example.