Good grief, how on earth did the innocent acquisition of knowledge go from being a simple and straightforward asset to a deceptive and convoluted liability, she asked herself, treading carefully in her mind along a bumpy trajectory of several disorganized yet perfectly coherent thoughts, pertaining to a subject that in recent months had emerged fully from the closet and was not only dominating international news, but also slowly & skillfully trespassing upon each person’s everyday life …