p101
Crust:
"Watching, all the time watching . . . goggle-eye geeks."
"The very moment they came into view, the old women laid her wire-knitting aside and fixed them with the bug-eyed opaque gape of her True-Vu lenses."
p145:
Core:
"True-Vu put a stop to purposeful crime..."
Status: Confirmed
The inevitability of a universal and open surveillance system has been one of Brin's long-standing themes. This particular prediction covers the online storage and retrieval of personal experiences, for use in evidence.
See also LifeCaching.
Reality
It only needed the technology to bring it to reality...
Starting with survellance cameras decorating every lamp post,
We now have police officers trialling this equipment in the London Met, and Taser's Axon.
If that were all, then Banksy would have a point. However, the watched can watch back with equal facility:
- digital cameras and videos are now freely available and have awesome resolution and storage capacities.
- all modern mobile phones have the ability to capture images of reasonable resolution.
- people are experimenting with 'life-caching', the latest example being a person who is seeking to install a camera in his eye socket.
References
- The Transparent Society: David Brin, 1998
- How to Save Your Life: The Guardian, Aug 19, 2004
- UK Officers Wear Brin's Tru-Vu Lenses. 'Technovelgy', November 2006
- For Eyes that have seen it all, there's a way to prove it: The New York Times, May 1, 2008
- 'The Axon' product brochure: Taser website, May 2008
- The 'Eyeborg Project: Register Hardware, March 6, 2009
- Google's Project Glass: Google Plus, April 4, 2012
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