• QZ.com, Wednesday, March 12, 2014 5:15 PM

Nathaniel Borenstein sent the world's first email attachment 22 years ago. The early adopter did an interview with Quartz.com expressing his ideas on everything from Bitcoin to modern day privacy concerns. "A lot of that effort of going into the privacy implications of new technology is wasted. People used to talk about hacking in Dick Cheney’s pacemaker, and it could have been done. You’re going to be walking around with a whole host of new devices in your body. They’re there because they’re good for you. You’re better off finding out about cancer when it’s seven cells than when it’s a tumor," he said. "This also means there’s info about you that is potentially leakable to the public. As horrible as it sounds, I don’t see any way to have the benefits of technology without having the risks to privacy."

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