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Post Privacy Age

It is interesting when you look closely at a statement made by the authorities and the NSA with regards to Edward Snowden. Mr Snowden has made it very public that he would like to return to the US and the authorities say that he can return and that they can only promise to essentially not execute him on sight at the airport. Even more important though is the fact that the authorities say they would like to interrogate Mr Snowden to find out exactly how much he knows. Anyone following this will be amazed by that statement because it is implying that with all the details that was disclosed by Mr Snowden, there may be a whole lot more capabilities that Mr Snowden may not be privy to or may not have revealed!

Some reasons why it makes sense to occasionally unplug from the Internet:

To escape the everyday

To live more productively

To be more authentic 

Some reasons why it does not make sense to occasionally unplug from the Internet:

To socialize

To stay connected

“Despite the BRAIN initiative recently announced by the Obama Administration, and the N.I.M.H.’s renewed efforts to stimulate research on the neurocircuitry of mental disorder, there is nothing on the horizon with which to replace the old story. Without a new explanatory framework, drug-company scientists don’t even know where to begin, so it makes no sense for the industry to stay in the psychiatric-drug business. And if loyalists like Hyman and Friedman continue to say out loud what they have been saying to each other for many years—that, as Friedman told Times readers, “just because an S.S.R.I. antidepressant increases serotonin in the brain and improves mood, that does not mean that serotonin deficiency is the cause of the disease”—then consumers might also lose faith in the myth of the chemical imbalance.”