A Harvard Professor named Margo Seltzer recently spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, saying that privacy was dead:  “Privacy as we knew it in the past is no longer feasible… How we conventionally think of privacy is dead.”

Seltzer, a professor in computer science at Harvard University, went on to predict that in the near future, mosquito-sized drones would perpetually monitor individuals as well as collecting DNA and biometric information for governments and corporations.  “It’s not whether this is going to happen, it’s already happening,” said Seltzer on the issue of pervasive surveillance. “We live in a surveillance state today.”

The professor added that miniaturized drone technology should be used for benevolent purposes, such as sending the same device into an Ebola ward to “zap the germs”.  Fellow Harvard academic Sophia Roosth also warned that an era of “genetic McCarthyism” was on the way as a result of people’s personal genetic information being available to governments via the Internet.

At the same conference, tech entrepreneur Anthony Goldbloom told the panel that young people no longer cared about surveillance issues and were perfectly willing to trade privacy for convenience.  “People often behave better when they have the sense that their actions are being watched,” said Goldbloom, seemingly invoking the character O’Brien from George Orwell’s 1984.

As if this is scary enough, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who is not known for his strong advocacy of privacy, paved the way for the introduction of an Internet brain chip when he told Davos attendees that the world wide web would “disappear” as an external concept.

So, since the younger generation doesn’t care about their privacy, they can look forward to not having any. Mosquito drones and implanted brain chips, those revealing selfies don’t seem so much of a threat anymore.  Isn’t that nice?

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