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This was one of the first things that struck me when I saw footage of soldiers evading fibre-optic flown drones. It's very terminator-esque.

Hiding, preying it doesn't spot you. Listening to the sound as it flies ever closer, unsure if this is your last moment. Relief as it flies past, but panic to find the invisible fibre optic cable it dropped so you can cut it.

Found it...snip....squeel....boom....breathe.

The last three are linked. You understand that, right?

I think there was an inherent demand behind those examples though. Just the number of lives lost looking for the northwest passage showed how useful the Panama canal would be.

You're also comparing government spending in a lot of those cases Vs private capital. That fact shows how much power has shifted in the world already.

Not these kind of figures. Only a quarter of countries have annual GDPs larger than what's been spent so far this year. This is on a scale not seen before.

What makes it worse is that it's being spent on something which consumes huge resources and has no purpose except giving a few people more power as they would control what these systems would say is true.

Thank you. I seriously didn't understand what the field was.

I was working in the AV industry at the time.

How is you working in the audio/video industry relevant? ...or maybe you mean adult videos?

God the comments on that are a cesspool.

...and in the past we were fighting and losing to similar billionaire corporatist figures.

Fair

That's just Minority report. That seems ok compared to where we're headed.

Also, that's $5000 in 1994 money (if not older).

Surely fines should scale with inflation.

How does this end? I can't see how the surveillance state keeps going without things snapping at some point.