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Re: patenting big brother

To: Ariel Glenn <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: patenting big brother
From: Alan <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 21:52:03 -0700
Cc: [email protected]
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At 12:39 PM 10/13/97 EDT, Ariel Glenn wrote:

>http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/101397patents.html
>
>Engineer Invents Computerized Surveillance System
>
>            By TERESA RIORDAN
>
>Imagine that a city park were studded with discreetly
>placed cameras that fed images into computers programmed to keep
>a watchful eye. This may sound darkly Orwellian, but
>David Aviv, a former aerospace engineer, has patented exactly
>such a system as a way of combating crime. 
>
>Aviv said his invention, which he calls the Public Eye,
>used pattern recognition to detect robberies or acts of violence. 

This sounds like something from "Agent of Chaos" by Norman Spinrad.  Now
all they need is the plug to flood the area with lethal radiation...

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