Where this apparatus gets really interesting is the addition of AI. Suddenly cross-referencing pockets of activity in the giant trove of permanently stored dat

Where this apparatus gets really interesting is the addition of AI. Suddenly cross-referencing pockets of activity in the giant trove of permanently stored data can be done for every citizen, not just ones of interest. You can start modeling and simulating behavior off that data to predict future actions like in Minority Report. But if you look far enough into the future on that trend and link it into Microsoft's recent patent on resurrecting dead people as AI chatbots from social media data, the treasure trove of all online activity for every citizen becomes a curious anthropological artifact as the people in it die off. Did you have a nuclear scientist on the verge of a fusion breakthrough die before they could finish their paper? Just feed the entirety of their digital life into the system and extrapolate the non-digital using generalized "human experience" models built off everyone else to resurrect a copy of them (or many copies) in a simulated continuation of their day to day thinking and working. Very few people fully understand the extent of the digital footprints we are leaving behind in the context of trends in big data. The data we are leaving behind in mass collection will eventually take on (literally) new life.