> In twenty years, at current rates of progress, it will be feasible for the Chinese government to use face recognition to track the public movements of everyon

> In twenty years, at current rates of progress, it will be feasible for the Chinese government to use face recognition to track the public movements of everyone in the country. When this note was published in 2001, I didn't expect the tech to become that good that fast. I was wrong. (Not that I thought it wouldn't happen, just that there'd be more time.)