Re: Here is the thing you need to watch out for: meta data collection
> Sorry, but I can't continue considering the US as part of the developed world.
And that is where you got it wrong. The US is a developed country. It is just further along the civilisation development path and entered (or is about to enter) the ‘rot from within and crumble’ stage. Occasionally, civilisations go out with a bang but let us hope it does not come to that in the US case because the bang could be a nuclear one...
We will all get to this stage eventually. Where I live we just have the (dubious) luck of being quite far behind in the civilisation game.