"y such efforts can only seem a matter of trivial and ineffectual bickering, indeed, and he writes ???[w]ith the new cameras, databases and other tools coming online, that whole path is futile.??? Brin goes on to reiterate this point extraordinarily starkly: ???Not one thing we do will reduce the growing power of elites to look at us.??? It is difficult to read this statement as anything but sheer" . . . .