“We definitely don’t want a society where there’s a camera in everyone’s living room watching the content of those conversations.” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook, whose company sells Portal, a smart speaker, that does exactly that. Via

I am kicking off the morning with three works by “A Letter from Om” readers. They had smart things to say and emailed me their links. I felt they deserved a bigger audience. You can judge for yourself.

• Bradford Cross in his piece, Why corporates are targets in the global cyber arms race, has connected the dots, and the final picture isn’t pretty. This should be on your must-reads today.
• Connection vs Interaction: Jack Reichert’s a very smart take on what’s wrong with social networks.
• Eliot Peper: What the Truman Show can teach us about the future of the Internet.

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