So because I'm not going to "embrace" all this, doesn't mean I think I'm invisible, hiding-out, or off-grid.
We just think differently, you choose to bring it into your life, and I choose to avoid it (without wearing a tinfoil hat). Tell me, what do you do regarding the drone the guy down the block is flying into your yard, and focusing into your window? Are you claiming to be able to outwit all the alphabet agencies to prevent them from intercepting any of your communications? Nobody has the ability to hack any of your bank accounts, or any of these home eletronics discussed in this thread? If you do...welcome to the head in the sand club
I read a headline yesterday saying 50% of children will be obese by the time they're 35. Do we really need things to make people more lazy? Geez, now we cant even pick up the TV remote to change channels, we need to just be able to say it.....how long before we're too lazy to talk, and need a machine hooked to our brains to read our thoughts and operate the tv from those. Ditto with turning on/off lights, adjusting the thermostat, and lots of other stuff. This technology was born to play off the laziness of people.
I'm well aware our emails are all archived (hence my prior post regarding my little message to Google), as well as calls/texts monitored. As a society. we've become far too accepting of this invasion of privacy. That said, when my time comes, I don't go worrying how my kids world will be (since I chose not to have any), I wouldn't want that burden. Things will only get worse.