From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 16:11:03 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
> BillK wrote:
>
> > Now, the thought strikes me that if Spike can arrange to have a cloud of
> > wasp size cameras following Mike around and we can sneak some toffee size
> > cameras into his burgers, then we have total surveillance - outside AND
> > inside! ;-)
Since I'm an Air Force vet, I go by the Academy practice of chewing every bit 57
times...got a camera that can deal with that?
> Ummm, I call outsides, you can check his insides. {8^D
>
> By the way, after I started posting that wasp-cam stuff, I learned
> that Damien Broderick had already incorporated the idea into a novel,
> which will go on sale soon. I claim independent discovery, but he
> had the notion first. {8-]
Actually, Vinge beat you both to it. See _The Peace War_. He's always first...
> We joke around about this a lot, but consider some of Mikes
> objections. If we develop really cool wasp cams, etc, it really
> will be only a matter of time before they come into our bedrooms
> thru the AC vents, etc. All privacy *really will* be lost, and it
> isnt at all clear to me how one would defend against it without
> spending buttloads of money, an option closed to the poor. spike
Nah, there will be wasp sized countermeasures devices sold at Sharper Image and
in Cabelas. They'll be predatory. Capturing ones that don't answer your IFF
code, dissasembling them into their components, and building them into more
loyal countermeasures bots, so the more people are after you, the more you wind
up being protected in the end. Those surveillance ones should come in good for
scouting out deer though. <g>
Mike Lorrey
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