In T15624#279787, @adam wrote:

The voting starts in a week, so any changes that you intend to do should be done soon :)

Hi @pgess, thanks for the comment. The book How We Became Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles is probably the best book to fit the "plain English" requirement. The latest two books from Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Exits to the Posthuman Future and Technologies of the New Real also explore the problem in depth, albeit in a more difficult prose.

Thanks for your thoughts, lordhelpus! They indicate the level of passion and concern that issues of privacy and computer ownership may evoke in much of the Free Software community. In the siege-mentality terms which frame this argument for you, I'm not ready to accept defeat quite yet.