Not only that, but people's relationships with each other have been changed by machines.<p>It used to be that the FBI keeping a file open on somebody famous was considered scandal-worthy. Now FaceBook keeps much more personal information on all of us and people don't bat an eye about it. Younger people today seem to have completely abandoned the idea that they might have a private life and that privacy might have great value to themselves and others.<p>The noble savage and artisan view of humanity has changed into a view that we're all mostly just interchangeable nodes on the world network.<p>We have become the very machines that we once so hated.