This floofer was caught snugglin' on the security camera:[…]

He architected the military coup against the government.

Wine and spirits topped the drink list, with tea a close second. Bairnsdale's contribution — as wine-bibbers, whisky-tipplers, or theics — to these enlightening statistics is not known.

While the lack of privacy was precisely what made Ballard's billennial city, Harrison's New York, Hersey's New Haven, and Silverberg's urban monads so horrific, the citizens of Brin's global society rejoice in the disappearance of an informational privacy that they have come to regard as nothing more than a protection for the privileges of the affluent (e.g. Swiss bank accounts) or a cloak for unlawful maneuvers of governmental and corporate institutions.