Your Thoughts on the Future

[stevebowers]

The thing about closely-knit societies like small villages is that everyone knows everyone else's business. This tends to mean that society evolves a strict set of behavioural rules, so that no-one offends or inconveniences anyone else. To allow people to follow an individualistic lifestyle in an environment with low expectations of privacy, these strict behavioural rules need to be made less strict.

But I don't think that behavioural rules can be removed altogether, since people (and machines) still need to be polite to one another.