describes (in a fiction that didn't really need the McGuffin of 'wormholes') in order to be prescient to a Fare-Thee- Well.
No 'spoiler' as, it has Been Here since well before this Final Tool: The Death of All Privacy.

Arthur C. Clarke w/acolyte collaborator/or versa vice:
http://www.amazon.co...ght+of+Other+Days

All-glass houses? ... predicted. Already. Just awaiting an Insanely-Grrreatt Ad-blitz to be converted to $B-or-T.
Well, there's lots of silica, but as the temp rises and the masses ignore: will there be enough energy to melt all that sand?
(We could use the reserves earmarked for the impoverished/let more of them freeze during '14-like winters.. they ain't got no PACs--easy.)