> Now obviously that's at a different scale This is exactly why the rest of your argument is wrong. The difference is scale is so vast that it makes the new su

> Now obviously that's at a different scale This is exactly why the rest of your argument is wrong. The difference is scale is so vast that it makes the new surveillance society something completely different from people seeing other people in public as they have done for thousands of years. > no one had the willpower to memorize a million faces Because it was literally impossible for someone to memorize a million faces. Let alone a few billion. And their precise location 24x7. At most you'd have the occasional shopkeeper with a sharp memory who might remember a few thousand regulars. But even that information wasn't available via quick database query. You had to send investigators with photos to interview people.