"Knowledge and human power are synonymous," Francis Bacon 1561-1626

Are we really careful about our personal life? Have we exposed ourselves so freely that everybody and anybody can find out anything about us? Case in point: MySpace, YouTube, et.al. We give information freely, so freely that our best friend wouldn't know as much about us as these organization and we have been the chief contributor of that information.

Some may say this is on the fringe of paranoia, others may say we haven't gone far enough in reveling our inner self, of self expression and other Sigmund Freud buzzwords. "Be open, don't shirk away," they say. Meanwhile the cascade of information about us tends to accumulate in some far reaching databank in the vastness of this world (old or new). Would we be interested in the last website that our favorite famous person had last visited? Would we have the same admiration for them if we learned they were completely computer illiterate? The databank tattler could tell us.

There are spy wares nestled inside your computer that can tell every site you have every visited. I routinely hunt them down and destroy them. What I do is my own business and no one else's; but I may already have been too late. The information may have been already transmitted perhaps while I had written this blog.

The keepers of this demographic wisdom say this information is essential to effectively market the goods of America, to cut down on unnecessary waste and repetition. Get the right stuff to the right people at the right time (in the right quantity). "We have the information here that will tell us what you'll buy before you'll even open your wallet or purse." It is economic prognostication without a crystal ball. Scary stuff huh?

We can open this cornucopia and tell who will be the next President of the United States. Or can we? We thought we could predict that Harry Truman would lose to the Republican candidate; one Chicago newspaper even printed the headline "Dewy Wins!" Truman framed that one. He even displayed it to the very news media that had published his political obituary.

Should you be taken for granted? Strike back! Download a spy ware killer. Let them know they don't need to know, what you know when you knew it.

K