Comments on: Telescreens are old hat https://habitablezone.com/2013/05/16/telescreens-are-old-hat/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2013/05/16/telescreens-are-old-hat/#comment-24037 bowser Fri, 17 May 2013 00:01:21 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=32772#comment-24037 In major cities their cameras can follow a car from a bank robbery half-way to Paris. Or they can follow a woman as she exits a nightclub at 2:00 AM, watch her waiting, and identify when and what kind of a car she got into as well as whoever she talked with in the mean time. I saw something I should have saved, and didn't. It was about memory having become so inexpensive that every intersection in a medium-sized town could be monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the information saved for something like $20,000. Seriously, youtube has those documentaries and it's a revelation. In major cities their cameras can follow a car from a bank robbery half-way to Paris. Or they can follow a woman as she exits a nightclub at 2:00 AM, watch her waiting, and identify when and what kind of a car she got into as well as whoever she talked with in the mean time.

I saw something I should have saved, and didn’t. It was about memory having become so inexpensive that every intersection in a medium-sized town could be monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the information saved for something like $20,000.

Seriously, youtube has those documentaries and it’s a revelation.

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