>He talked a lot about the growing
>"comprehensive surveillance," leading to a city where
all surveillance
>systems would be linked and every inch of the
cityscape would be
>accessible to some security camera.
I don't know if there's been any word, but there are a number
of science fiction works that tackle this question that might
be of interest to the list. There was a series of short
stories by David Drake (better know for his sci-fi mercenary
novels) about future cop Jed Lacey, in a world where everyone
was watched, all the time (collected in LACEY AND HIS
FRIENDS, with some non-hardboiled additions).
And there's an inverted mystery in the same scenario, called
(I believe)
"Private Eye" by (I believe) Henry Kuttner. Obviously the
winds of time have blown away my recollection of that
one.
Graham
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