"It’s about the next 20 years. Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The next two decades it’s gonna be privacy. I’m talking about the Internet. I’m talking about cell phones. I’m talking about health records and who’s gay and who’s not. And moreover, in a country born on the will to be free, what could be more fundamental than this?"

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West Wing Season 1. That’s 1999 for those of you playing at home - 5 years before Facebook’s launch and Google’s IPO. Prescient as hell.

I’m re-watching the West Wing for about the fifth time and in the era of Obama administration, it’s even more prophetic.

I’m just going to leave this other quote here

“You ran great guns in the campaign. It was an insurgency, boy, a sight to see. And then you drove to the middle of the road the moment after you took the oath. Just the middle of the road. Nothing but a long line painted yellow.”

(also, West Wing-era Rob Low, ZOMG)