The century of ‘big data’ will be the century of unprecedented surveillance. The
dream of tyrants down through history has been the total monitoring,
control and management of the public, with the ability to predict the
behaviour of entire populations the most efficient means of achieving
this objective. For millennia, this has mainly existed in the realm of
fantasy, however with the vast leap in technology in recent decades,
this idea is becoming less a dystopian science fiction movie and more
the daily business of totalitarian high-tech regimes.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/06/15/smart-cities-are-the-next-phase-in-the-21st-century-surveillance-grid/
