steve wrote:
Una wrote:
That's actually what worries me the most about it - the way we alter our behaviour. In time, we won't need the cameras, just the belief that they're there.
That's fine by me, as long as the behaviour alteration is "good".
<squeak!> Who is to judge whether behaviour is 'good'?
But, to be fair, we *are* talking about speeding, which I think most people (unless you're Norris 'Mad Mac' McWhirter) would agree was 'bad' behaviour which we as a community would like to have controlled. But I would add that the technology which we have been discussing doesn't just have applications for preventing speeding. Perhaps someone might judge that these other applications might also deliver 'good' behaviour. Thin end of the wedge - today speeding tickets, tomorrow tattoos on the forehead and ceaseless wandering around a Guildford shopping centre...
I guess, in the whole identity card question, I'm firmly on the side of 'Yes, I know it would make life easier for the bureaucrats if I carried one - that's why I won't carry one.'
Una