2024-12-04T21:27:01-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/143354152/the-birth-and-death-of-privacy-3000-years-of-history-told-through-46-images Orhan Ayyüce 2015-12-14T11:35:00-05:00 >2022-03-16T09:10:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ro/robvz8au39xz0htq.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>&ldquo;Privacy may actually be an anomaly&rdquo; ~ Vinton Cerf, Co-creator of the military&rsquo;s early Internet prototype and Google executive.</p><ul><li>Privacy, as we understand it, is only about 150 years old.</li><li>Humans do have an instinctual desire for privacy. However, for 3,000 years, cultures have nearly always prioritized convenience and wealth over privacy.</li><li>Section II will show how cutting edge health technology will force people to choose between an early, costly death and a world without any semblance of privacy. Given historical trends, the most likely outcome is that we will forgo privacy and return to our traditional, transparent existence.</li></ul><p>Internal Walls (c. 1500 AD): Most homes didn't have walls separating the rooms until the development of the brick chimney, which needed support beams.</p><p><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*5MiWesuarroBdus4OjoETg.png"></p><p>Source: Housing Culture: Traditional Architecture In An English Landscape (p. 78).</p><p>&ldquo;A profound change in the very blueprint of the living space&rdquo; ~&nbsp;<em>historian Sarti Raffaella, on the introduction of the chimney.</em></p><p><a href="https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/the-birth-and-death-of-privacy-3-000-years-of-history-in-50-images-614c26059e#.2l4vaclcx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Read on t...</em></a></p>