I find the surveillance possibilities a lot more interesting- ubiquitous surveillance plus unmanned ground vehicles are going to bring about a sea change in pol

I find the surveillance possibilities a lot more interesting- ubiquitous surveillance plus unmanned ground vehicles are going to bring about a sea change in policing and warfare. I can imagine a situation where every major city is under constant video surveillance, the video of which is analyzed in real-time. After a few years of machine learning I'd imagine it'd be possible to tell when a crime has a high probability of taking place, in which case one of those UGVs is taken over by a human operator. In that way one cop could control 20 different streets, only 'using' one UGV at a time, whenever the analysis algorithms point out a potential problem. I'm NOT saying this is necessarily a good thing- this basically means the establishment of a police state in every industrialized nation. However, it is all but inevitable, and these kinds of swarming helicopters, now concept, soon a reality, ensure that inevitability.