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David Brin had some interesting thoughts about this inevitability back in 1996: https://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/transparentsociety1.htm...

(book was 1998 but portions were published earlier)

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Reminds me of another Scifi book called "Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw in which the story uses the idea of "slow glass": glass through which light takes years to pass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_of_Other_Days

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