yes read 1984, a couple of times and agree we are in danger of heading towards a totalitarian society, however in 1984 it was a centralized power who invaded the privacy of its citizens while maintaining the curtains of power. When I say I prefer transparency I mean open government as well as private industry and society. As much as citizens claim to hold their personal privacy sacred we see more and more people signing up to social media accounts and sharing their intimate details with the world. And i believe we are only in the infancy of a digital society. In the future, with development of more advanced AR and VR we will find people spending even more time logged in, be it for work, for education, for leisure and entertainment and their online identities will become more and more available... and with the advent of developing tech such as neural prosthetics there will eventually come a time when we are never offline. At which point personal identity boils down to an IP address. Again, to me this is neither good or bad, it just seems to be the direction we are heading if you look at current and past trends and project to the future.