interesting, yet incomplete. "communications technologies" coupled with human nature's fascination with the morbid and complete disregard for the dignity of others creates a surveillance society where information is deviod of meaning and context.
then the national pastime becomes escaping the all-seeing eye with ever more clever means, bribes, and charades.
oh, yeah, and nobody trusts anyone. this will create a super-stratified culture: those who can afford to keep their records completely free of the errors that crop up like ants in database management and those who cannot: Cyber-non-persons.
/rant