Realistically one of the benefits of working in different places is developing professional networks (non-technical based originally). You met people, developed a professional report with them, and if you left the original organization you took your contacts with you. Some people are valuable because they know key players in different markets and services.
Some companies try to crush this because basically you are taking some of their business away but in reality stopping it is very hard.
If this starts to translate into the Internet and social networking, it will be a real nightmare. Especially if you private contacts overlap your professional ones. Theoretically you could lose access to your personal contacts as well or those personal contacts could become the property of the original company.
I really think that creating artificial boundaries between personal and professional lives is going to have to be done. Otherwise you will end up with a society that basically can't function at any level.
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