Posted on 06/07/2012 8:28:58 AM PDT by ColdOne
New surveillance cameras will use computer eyes to find 'pre crimes' by detecting suspicious behaviour and calling for guards
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In its latest project BRS Labs is to install its devices on the transport system in San Francisco, which includes buses, trams and subways.
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The company says will put them in 12 stations with up to 22 cameras in each, bringing the total number to 288.
The cameras will be able to track up to 150 people at a time in real time and will gradually build up a memory of suspicious behaviour to work out what is suspicious.
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Actually, I stumbled across a vid on YouTube where Rachel Madcow was questioning this same ‘pre-crime’ bit and even linked it to the idea of unlimited ‘detention’—without charges, indictment, or trial, much less conviction of an actual crime. When the Libs are starting to run scared of the monster they have created, you know it is bad.
Yes, even the lib media was talking about this crap.
Those lyrics are prescient in light of the computer technology we have today. Think of it as an electronic pan-opticon.
I consider THX 1138 to be prophetic in regards to the cattle prods on sticks which are the tazers of today. And we have cops that act more like robots than human beings.
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