The funny thing is, I suspect that many people believe that to be the law already, if cinema and television audiences are anything to go by. That's quite scary really, because it simply isn't true. You can't entrap, but that has a very specific meaning. Even if it were against the law though, with the system as it is prosecutorial discretion and grand juries that insulate LEO's from murder would do so for lesser crimes (and do).
This seems like an argument for the destruction of anonymity for anyone who isn't a net-wide lurker, or at least, it's indistinguishable from one. I understand the author's concern, but I don't respect the conclusions.
There's a difference between a biological cascade leading to the production of distributed signaling molecules, and "feeling" things, as a few comments seem to be missing. A human being with a practically destroyed brain can still moan and move. There needs to be a feedback mechanism to "feel", and a processing center to have some awareness of that "feeling".
There's a long way from complex animal life that we consider to be simple only by comparison with ourselves, and a stand of Eucalyptus.
I had a similar experience with elote, and now I'm a hopeless addict. Street food is often the best food that you don't cook yourself, or get at a serious restaurant with a fat bill. You get to see some interesting concepts come to life, and then take root in brick and mortar locations too, and it's always good to have a new pathway for restaurants to follow that depends on good food and word of mouth.
The ability to anonymously, and untraceably make money is not like the ability to encrypt information, a symbolic thing you have for insurance reasons, or your privacy. A private international to-cash economy is not the same as a private bedroom, or letter, or home.
I think it's also just useful to learn for the way it makes you stop and examine the world around you, your own decisions, in a new and more analytical light. Besides, if you're into physics, it's the only way; you can't visualize a 10-sphere.
I thought I was unable to learn math, until I learned it outside of a school. One book like Prime Obsession was worth more to me than every moment of high school math. It's unbelievable to me that anyone can learn something devoid of context. I think there's a similar problem in how second languages are taught in schools as well.
There is a strange, hardcore of people who love No Man's Sky. I don't mean people who like it, I mean people who (literally) brag about buying multiple copies and playing hundreds of hours. Those people do not like the reception the game has gotten, and have failed to integrate the reasons for that reception well with their own extreme enjoyment.
Why would embracing one destroy the other? I think a combination of gestural interface, subvocalization voice recognition, and AR could be the big winner in our lifetimes. The text won't be bound to a screen, you don't give anything up, you just gain.
When you need to get into serious writing or bulk data entry, maybe it would be a keyboard.
I think it just means you have a bit of empathy, and awareness of how other people might view you. Many, if not most people seem to lack those qualities in general, never mind in relation to their phones.
On the topic, something which reads your subvocalizations is really needed, and could even increase the speed!
Unfortunately New York isn't the only place pricing people out of a home.
By the way, About 2% of Americans live in New York City alone. At least 1% are not having a great time with rent that outstrips their potential earnings.