RE:For wath it's worth while waitingI grew up in a rural small town - less than 1500 people.
Crime was virtually non-existent because everyone knew just about everyone else and in those days, prior to air conditioning, people would be outside enjoying the evenings, visiting, at the local sportsfield, or just sitting on the veranda reading or puttering in the yard and chatting with the neighbours.
In other words, eyeballs that recognized you or your friends, whovever you were with and wherever you were going to and coming from.
And if a strange car with 'new' people ever stopped in front of your house and got out and came to your door you could be almost sure that everybody on the street was aware of them before they got to the front door.
That used to be normal.
We now live in a world where people closet themselves indoors in front of video screens, in high density cities, where the idea of 'blending into the crowd' and becoming 'anonymous' has been a mindset of the last 50+ years.
And instead of the population split being 15% city and 85% rural, the numbers are now reversed in most developed/developing countries of the world.
Having CCTV, doorcams, dashcams, etc., is just a modern day way of getting back to a more 'small town' ambience, where you will grow and live in a town/city/world where you are recognized and something about you is known. Your limp, scar, tytpe of clothing you usually wear, which stores you frequent etc., no different than living in small town Kansas.
That's not control or dictatorship.
That's just what happens when you live in a 'neighbourhood'.
Except now, with cameras and compute power that neighbourhood is going planetary in scale.
If you don't have a pocket full of rocks and are throwing them at windows, or carrying a baseball bat and knocking the sideview mirrors off the cars as you come back from your baseball practice, you have nothing to worry about, nothing at all.
You remind me of the folks back then that were against having street lights installed because they swore they wouldn't be able to fall asleep because it wouldn't be as dark as before, and their health would suffer.
The last time I looked human lifespans were getting longer than they were 60 years ago when i heard those opinions expressed.
Having a 'friendly neighborhood watch camera' on every one of those light poles IS the future, right next to the 5G antenna, as they watch 'you' sleeping at the wheel of your autonomously guided EV as you peacefully turn at the corner of your street and gently roll up, and into, your automated garage, as the 'automatically signalled door opened for you and now gently closes behind you, as your preprogrammed 'wake-up' tune rouses you from your slumber, refreshed, and ready to give your spouse and children some hugs and quality time.
All brought to you by freedom, capitalism and a pluralist democracy.
Perhaps we'll see fewer pocketsfull of stones in the future, especially if more schools stressed enrolling in a STEM program, so that our children can 'engineer' a way back to a lifestyle that won't need Tik Tok sign language to save abducted female children.
The sooner the better I say.
And NXO's ALIIS, incorporated onto the NVIDIA Jetson platform, and dare I say more 'platforms' to come, will have it's part to play in you and your children's neighborhood (world) of tomorrow.
Tcwtaeugene2 wrote: https://www.itnewsonline.com/PRNewswire/Surveillance-Market-to-Reach-USD-67670-Million-by-2027-at-a-CAGR-of-9.6Percent--Valuates-Reports/797781
Saw that this morning. Honesly, i dont like the trend of the surveillance market with the danger of controling populations around the world with tendencies for less democracies and more control over individuals with less and less freedom left. Nexoptic i assume will be aware of that.
Take care, Eugene