I’m not hopeful we’ll get there but when everyone has a camera built into their eyes with the feed backed up in the cloud and no way to tell when they are recording since they’re always recording, it seems like in such a world it would get harder and harder for the truth not to come out. It only takes one person to leak the info. Right now those situations are rarely recorded so at most it would be someone’s word against someone else’s but in that future they’d have proof.

I don’t think we’ll ever have a society where there are no criminals. While I can imagine a society with enough social support there are no petty criminals I can’t imagine with no corrupt government officials, no exploitive executives, no bad police.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past

Certainly the surveillance state produces a more law-abiding polity.

The question becomes who is making those laws and to what ends.

I’ve long thought that all government — public sphere — activity should be completely in the open. AFAICT there should be no need for secrecy or opacity in almost anything they do or say on the job, from the Oval Office to the local pound.

Act at work as if you’re always on camera is actually pretty good career advice, LOL.

>If most people walking down the street were constantly recording what their eyes see would muggings stop?

Yes, we saw this with the Boston terrorist event, how recorded surveillance creates the imagery that can identify wrongdoers.

The UK has been in the forefront of this trend.

I think it’s more important to create a society where criminals are not created, rather than create a police state to catch them in the act.

Goog is on the wrong track here I think.

Just yesterday I came across my HS senior yearbook after 15 years. It’s fun revisiting the past, but it’s not a good place to live.