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“Yet no nanocomputer or other complex circuit was built for a decade and a half. [32]  We had the devices. What we do not have, still, is simply the infrastructure that macroscopic technology takes for granted: the ability to sort and test parts; to cut and join materials; to create frameworks that can hold devices in designed relationships, and the ability to place parts into such frameworks.”

J Storrs Hall. “Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past.”

TIL: Surveillance society

 

1. Cities of China* — 626m cameras to 1.43bn people = 439.07 cameras per 1,000 people
2. Hyderabad, India — 900,000 cameras for 10,801,163 people = 83.32 cameras per 1,000 people
3. Indore, India – 200,000 cameras per 3,302,077 people = 60.57 cameras per 1,000 people
4. Delhi, India — 449,934 cameras for 22,547,000 people = 19.96 cameras per 1,000 people
5. Singapore, Singapore — 109,072 cameras for 6,080,859 people = 17.94 cameras per 1,000 people
6. Moscow, Russia — 214,000 cameras for 12,680,389 people = 16.88 cameras per 1,000 people
7. Baghdad, Iraq — 120,000 cameras for 7,711,305 people = 15.56 cameras per 1,000 people
8. Seoul, South Korea — 144,513 cameras for 9,988,049 people = 14.47 cameras per 1,000 people
9. St. Petersburg, Russia — 75,000 cameras for 5,561,294 people = 13.49 cameras per 1,000 people
10. London, England (UK) — 127,423 cameras for 9,648,110 people = 13.21 cameras per 1,000 people.

https://www.comparitech.com/vpn-privacy/the-worlds-most-surveilled-cities/