Ten years ago, if something weird happened most of us would say, "Gee, I wish I'd brought a camera!".
Today, if something weird happens most of us would say, "Gee, I wish I'd had my phone out of my pocket when that happened!".
A couple of years from now, we'll just take for granted that we're recording everything around us all the time.
Humans love sharing stories, but we're obsessed with our own credibility. We could entertain others with a well spun tale far better than with a cellphone snap-shot, but we still strive to record that snap-shot so we won't need to tell the story and risk being doubted. In the process, we are eliminating the mutability of truth and perspective in human experience in favor of cold, hard bits that tell only the objective truth, and will do so perfectly for as long as they are stored.
While we worry about keeping the secrets we have, we're generating new secrets at an exponentially increasing rate. Secrets are necessarily losing their impact as a result. A nude photo was once a scandal. A hardcore pornographic movie, deliberately leaked, is now cheap promotion. Here in Canada, the mayor of a major city was allegedly caught doing crack on tape. People weren't sure whether to care or not, and it mostly came down to whether or not they already liked him. Society is changing to accommodate the reduction of personal privacy by becoming less responsive to scandal.
This is why the use of encryption has such difficulty overcoming sloth and why there is so little rage among the U.S. public about their loss of privacy. Compared to the indignities their pop-idols are subjected to, the snooping of the NSA seems benign. The government would have to start placing cameras in their bathrooms and bedrooms before they'd be properly outraged, and in a decade or two even that may be tolerable! However, even as some types of information lose their ability to wound, the type of information the government seeks will still serve as an instrument of control.
It's a bit of a conundrum. How do we make people care more about privacy when society is busy transforming itself to care less? I don't think the cypherpunk movement has a hope of combating this trend. Whatever it does for the good of society will have to be done in spite of society rather than with it's willing participation.