A fault I see in Bruce Schneier's article, and the general hypothesis of "frame/baseline shifting" - it's not that people have been conditioned or forgotten the value of privacy, but that we're looking at the world through ever smaller lenses. The story in the article is that science is guilty of that too. The decline has been around education and perspective in general, not just attitudes to a small issue like "privacy". We thought the internet would widen our scope. It narrowed it.
In the UK we have a great travel and culture show by Romesh Ranganathan. (I highly recommend it, so get on your VPN to watch BBC or find it on the torrents). It will cheer you up [0]. He's a funny guy. But also the cultural vista is breath-taking. Looking at life in central Africa it's great to be reminded of the diversity of humankind. Watch for the little things - like a whole bus queue of people, none of whom are on mobile phones.
What the Internet promised - the great "conversation of mankind" - never emerged. Instead we got cat memes and social control media that forced people into ever smaller parochial silos. HN is no different. Here it's cool to have a bleak outlook on humanity and technology. "Oh it's too late... we're doomed... oh woe is me!" C'mon hackers... what happened to the joy of shaping the world? :)
Bruce Schneier appeals to a macro systems theory metaphor, and mentions Daniel Pauly [1]. But he neglects some of the more profound lessons that Forrester, Meadows and actually Norbert Weiner gave us about feedback and the empty dream of cybernetic governance. Nothing as big as humanity will fit in bottle that small unless you're willing to destroy it in the process. And what you're destroying is the very innovative base that gave you the technology in the first place. This is why they should teach history, geography and other cultures in schools.