Really I see anonymity and privacy as both existing and serving a purpose, but in two different worlds. The only place I see anonymity as valuable would be within the ecosystem of some sort of Collective intelligence. The only reason I see it as valuable, or the primary reason; is that is severs the attachments to “self”. Anything you propose online now is valued through the lens of how you are perceived. Your race, age, gender, geographic location, past history, political affiliation, etc, etc. You can be discounted from the start just for being “you”. Regardless of whether what you have to say is “logical” or “reasonable”. It really is not about putting forth our “opinions”, it is about building and creating together and we don’t need the attachments to accomplish that. About the video, to be honest once I got to about the one minute mark and heard the quote I posted, I turned it off. I didn’t mean to make you listen to it all. To me all those TED talk people are a little creepy. I think they are attempting to impress us with their non-anonymity, all their attachments and their individual intelligence.