> Predictive policing is old ... Agreed, but technology changes everything (otherwise, what are we all doing?). Transporting goods by boat is thousands of year

> Predictive policing is old ... Agreed, but technology changes everything (otherwise, what are we all doing?). Transporting goods by boat is thousands of years old (or probably more), but modern shipping has a completely different impact than millennia of wooden wind- and human-powered boats. Surveillance is old; modern data collection and analysis is a whole different animal.