What kind of honest lives? We probably can't rule out the possibility that they can, in the future, tape your sex act at home from all the way in space. So in that case we should stop having kids then? That would get rid of most of the human race pretty quick

I don't suppose anything will work at later stages where the cells are everywhere... especially not that.

Well, for now. A couple of lobbyists and satellites later it will be able to get as clear as your cellphone camera pictures

Is the earth trying to beat is in making the earth itself uninhabitable?

Privacy will be a thing of the past in no time. The only matter is when do we reach the point of no return.

Does it have anything to do with the BP oil spill?

Now the carriers will charge you for 911 texting capabilities, just like they did for phone calls

Their straight answer is that the industry needs more workers or otherwise they will be forced to break such agreements and push up the wages which make the other firm to go on a head hunt and jack up the wages further.

New talents will be nigh impossible to develop from scratch because it's the same guys who shifts between the big firms. Is it really so hard to develop talent who isn't currently working for those firms?

Is it just me or "to late to be" sounds odd?

That didn't go well enough with Windows XP (it got extended just a little). I guess it only works selectively.

Is it coming soon?

On one hand, most businesses are locked into using Windows, and on the other hand, Microsoft are phasing out everything every now and then in order to force you to pay them to upgrade. On top of that businesses usually have draconian versions of stuff that won't run without equally draconian versions of Windows/Office/IE. I wonder how do people get into that spiral

Then you probably has a whole lot of sophisticated stuff just to do what a normal stethoscope can do.
And the privacy concern: someone else may look over your shoulders for Skype calls? Like your estranged spouse/offsprings...

I would imagine these are for the case where the patient can't get to the doctor's office frequently. Whether this raise privacy concerns would be open for interpretation.