Such conflicts would be resolved, Skinner reckoned, by the gradual retreat of privacy norms as they fall to the advance of knowledge: “The line between public and private is not fixed.” Like today’s surveillance capitalists, he was confident that the slow drip of technological invention would eventually push privacy to the margins of human experience, where it would join “freedom” and other troublesome illusions. All these would be replaced by the viewpoint of the Other-One embodied in new instruments and methods: “The boundary shifts with every discovery of a technique for making private events public.… The problem of privacy may, therefore, eventually be solved by technical advances.”

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1175