privacy posed a major challenge by futurist Watts Wacker (CNN Interview)

I was watching Future Fast Forward at CNN the first day of 2010 after a long night. One of the questions raised by Campbell Brown, (CNN Anchor) was “What will the world be like in the next 10, 20, 30 years?”. Towards the end of the program the futurist Watts Wacker made really interesting comments about privacy. Here is the transcript I found from :
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/01/ec.01.html

WACKER: I think the most interesting thing that will happen in 10 years is that we completely reverse our orientation to the subject of big brother and privacy. And the paradox of the times we live in is that ever since George Orwell wrote the book that gave us Big Brother, we've organized our future around ensuring that that would never happen.

BROWN: Right.

WACKER: Right?

Well, the reality is you don't have any privacy anymore. You use a cell phone, you use E-ZPass, you know, any...

BROWN: If you're online period, it's gone.

WACKER: Right.

BROWN: Your information is out there.

WACKER: And we're going to have a whole new industry called privacy management consulting, where you're going to pay someone...

(LAUGHTER)

WACKER: ...to manage your...

BROWN: All those college graduates out there, pay attention.

WACKER: ...privacy and you're going to be part of a -- you're going to get part of the fee -- they're going to get the majority of it, but you're going to get enough of a percentage that it could be $4,000 or $5,000 per household for just allowing the information about you to be used by others.