&gt; Not being able to find private space in your multi-million dollar open floor plan modern home is one of those good kind of problems to have. If you want to live in a home with private space it isn&#x27;t exactly hard to do. Since when did twitter prevent you from keeping a diary if you so choose?<p>I think that the article <i>isn&#x27;t</i> saying we&#x27;ve lost the ability to choose privacy. It&#x27;s saying that we&#x27;ve created a world where there&#x27;s incentives to give up privacy, and very little consideration of what that choice means: sometimes we don&#x27;t even comprehend that we&#x27;re making that choice. Your own comment is an example:<p>&gt; I do agree with the author that private space is important though. It&#x27;s nice have time to reflect without the worry of interruption or judgement. In these &quot;Open offices&quot; it can be an actual problem, I seem to be the only person I know who would be fine with just a cubicle.<p>I don&#x27;t see a cubicle as being private <i>at all</i>. It doesn&#x27;t prevent people from interrupting or judging me, it only allows me a little respite from distraction, and even that it does poorly. Contrast this with the concept of a study, a room that houses rarely have any more, but in which much of the work of the world has been done.<p>Your very example of a &quot;private&quot; space demonstrates the ease with which one can give up privacy without even considering the choice.