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To: neolib who wrote (152542)	11/24/2004 4:30:36 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) of 281500

re: your actions should be video documented This is an example of a technology that is having profound (and unintended) consequences on human behavior. We are rapidly moving towards a world where all public spaces are monitered on video, in real time. This, plus face recognition technology, implies the end of a lot of antisocial rule-breaking. In a hunter-gatherer society, or a small village (that is, the social structure of almost everyone for almost all of human history), there are no anonymous relationships. There are no casual transient relationships. You know everyone, you are related by blood and marriage to most of them. Anyone you see, is someone you grew up with, and will have to continue living with. The video camera returns us to this social environment of personal accountability. And makes it global. Imagine every U.S. soldier wearing a helmet with a video camera and satellite uplink. Imagine the video feeds into software that identifies certain actions (like people being killed who don't have guns in their hands). Imagine the video available to the ICC, and the U.S. a signatory. This is technically possible today, but politically impossible.

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