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Horse is out of the barn. All our major cities have street cams that are monitored by law enforcement - or rather, store footage that can be called up later if needed as I doubt they have the resources to personally monitor the tens of thousands of street cams out there. They are in the subways, in the retail stores and at the coffee shops. These cameras are already incredibly cheap and they are getting cheaper. They are connected to the Internet with their unique MAC addresses mapped to static IP addresses, so any law enforcement with the rights can access them.

Ditto for our highways which are being taken over by these cams, which can snap a sharp picture of your license plate at 90 mph. This is same technology that is making tollbooths relics of the past. Soon there will be no need for police chases. The car will simply be followed electronically until it reaches its destination.

The Boston Marathon bombers were caught with these street cams. The looters down in Florida in the recent hurricane were identified and arrested thanks to these cams. So while there is an Orwellian dark side, there are also benefits.

Also, I should mention that IPv6 (the new IP protocol) has the capability of 340,000,000,000,000 unique addresses (340 trillion). That compares to the 3.4 billion unique addresses available under the original IP protocol - which was at one time thought to be plenty. But we are running out of addresses to assign.

So with IPv6, that amounts to 45,333 unique addresses for each of Earth's 7.5 million human beings.

This will allow billions upon billions of webcams to be placed across the United States with trillions of addresses left over.

The cost of a basic webcam will be under a penny in about 20 years and they will be the size of a ladybug.

What this means is that webcams will be everywhere. It will not be unusual for a regular suburban street to have thousands of webcams. In the city, there will probably be several million webcams on every block.

The point I'm trying to make is that we are entering into a world in which everything will be able to be seen by anybody.

There is no way to avoid it either.