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Privacy photo by Alan Cleaver via Flickr Creative Commons Progress photo by David Ingram via Flickr Creative Commons

Can they co-exist in the information age?

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This was high technology in the early 1980s.

Photo by Lindsey Turner via Flickr Creative Commons.

The clerk at the video rental store could have blackmailed some of us.

Photo by Chris Potter via Flickr Creative Commons

Some people used to pay with something called “cash”.

Photo by Lindsay Kinkade via Flickr Creative Commons

Admit it, your friends who didn’t want to use E-Zpassbecause of privacy concerns sounded like kooks, right?

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Cool, until you saw Tom Cruise get an eye transplant in Minority Report.Oh, sorry. Spoiler alert.

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Sorry for the Eurythmics earworm I just gave to all of you of a certain age.

Admit it – you know you wanted it.

And we got it, albeit a slightly scaled-down version.

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Social Media All The Things!!

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That’s us. I’m waiting for the BOGO sale.

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Data – Not just a Star Trek android longing to be human.

Illustration via Symantec

Spoiler: Not very

Narrative Clip takes a photo every 30 seconds and clips onto your clothing.

At least you see the Glassholes coming from a mile away

Photo via First Warning SystemsFacebook page

Now that is wearable tech.

In the end, who was better off? Ethan Hawke or Jude Law?

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But probably only if the highest bidder uses Square.

Tell me you wouldn’t want this as your watch, if it actually told time.

Image by Rob Jewitt via Flickr Creative Commons

Image by J. Nathan Matias via Flickr Creative Commons

Still, hope is not completely lost.