Posted on 15/12/07
Just speak into my cellphone
Many years ago I made a speech, and turned it into an essay, about novelists blurring issues of privacy by using real people in fiction. I quoted Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, saying, "You have no privacy, get over it." My thesis then was that important writers are supposed to challenge the culture, not buy in to the more worrisome trends within it. I have another point now, but McNealy's line is still a good starting point.
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