I once visited a company who had implemented a video capture system that allowed them to recognize everyone in the offices and gather detailed metrics about their movements. You could say, show me @riverflows location on Monday at 2 PM, and the system would quickly find the information and the video associated with it. The level of granularity was astonishing. The system was set up only for that company, but can you imagine what will happen in the future when the system is ubiquitous?
Personally, I think that surveillance tech will become widespread, and as always we’ll need to use our intelligence to get out of any potential pitfalls and use the technology to our benefit. Have you ever seen the Prime show Person of Interest? This series demonstrates the good and the bad of such technology.
Excellent piece with wonderfully detailed descriptions and insights.
Thankyou for your compliment. Sometimes it's better to write about things in a descriptive way, so you enjoy the rant a little more - as I'm sure you'd agree.
I haven't seen that - but I've seen Black Mirror, and have been an avid fan of dystopian fiction of all kinds too, or speculative fiction, which I prefer. The 'worse case scenarios' and 'what ifs' are happening to us now, and any fiction seems only a day away from this point, rather than in a 1984, as it were.
I just can't understand why people are allowing it to happen. Well, I can, but I wish they'd think more laterally!