I love technology. No. I do. I would marry my MacBook Pro if it had a pulse. But this technology scares me. The Touchtable – a modern day war table. It allows the military to zoom in on any geographic location and see what happened there over time. If you’re thinking about building an underground bunker, think again. It also allows the police force to predict crime by region and season so they know where to concentrate their forces and when.

If you’re the type of citizen that has bought into the hype of terror (a.k.a “the terror of hype”), you’ll be able to sleep easy tonight knowing that people in uniform can see the world at their fingertips. Knowing that the government has a huge electronic eye that’s watching every move of “the enemy”. Not very different from the Eye of Sauron. Yeah. Because, you know? Dark lords have a tendency to think they’re on the right side.

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