Not sure why this comment's gray; it's a good point (and a sobering one). In the very near feature, Western countries likely won't be relying on individual surv

Not sure why this comment's gray; it's a good point (and a sobering one). In the very near feature, Western countries likely won't be relying on individual surveillance cameras; we'll have end-to-end chains of cameras that will confirm, with confidence, which house a person walked out of 2 hours ago, right down to their interior flat entrance inside an apartment block. (As the PRC is currently trialing). We'll have near-perfect panopticon identity systems, associating facial recognition with place of residence, and dozens of other factors. It's very important to ponder what the PRC is pioneering today because we're about three years behind doing exactly the same things, and for the same reasons. It's only going to be a brief time before things we're horrified about, and vitriolically condemn totalitarian states for, are things we're going to fully normalize within our own culture.