Mass Surveillance in the United States
Item: Auto-autos (self-driving cars) and the accompanying infrastructure will be a defacto ubiquitous surveillance system.<p>(Triangulation of gunshots in realtime, etc.)<p>On the one hand we eliminate privacy, on the other we can eliminate crime.<p>I don&#x27;t think we can put the genie back in the bottle.<p>- - - -<p>As a pulled-in-the-wool tinfoil-hat-wearing paranoiac the sad thing about Snowden was that the poor kid had to flush his life down the toilet to get people to understand what we (the tinfoil hat crowd) knew goddamned well was already going on.  <i>Of course</i> the NSA is slurping up all available data everywhere because <i>that&#x27;s what I would do.</i><p>We are <i>not</i> going to rollback surveillance.  The folks that <i>want</i> to roll it back are so naive that <i>they</i> must be monitored by the rest of us for their own safety and ours.  I wish it weren&#x27;t so but there it is.<p>The question is do we want to become a world of Morlocks and Eloi?  Or do we want to go for some sort of Star Trek future, where the sensors and computers and world-destroying weapons are governed by a strict but flexible <i>humane</i> and open government?<p>If you are a citizen of the US you have an <i>awesome</i> government that is open to participation at all levels, g&#x27;wan and get involved!  Happy Fourth of July!