Human Surveilance Machine
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51831)
St. Catharines, Ontario
March 11, 2009 7:00am CST
Remember The Six Million Dollar Man? He had a camera in one of his eyes...
Well, Canadian documentary filmmaker Rob Spence plans to have a camera fitted into the socket of an eye he lost as a result of a childhold accident. He hopes to be able to film what he sees with his other, natural, eye and to get more relaxed responses from his subjects than he would by pointing a large camera at them. You can read more about this here:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090311/national/eye_camera
So, what do you think? Are we "sleepwalking into an Orwellian society."?
4 responses
@BarBaraPrz (51831)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
11 Mar 09
It's been a while since I've read it, but didn't it say somewhere in the book that it had been 1984 for as long as anyone could remember? That the year never changed...? So, it's not late at all.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
12 Mar 09
That's scary. Hidden cameras are bad enough. I prefer the in your face security camera. I don't want to be caught doing something embarrassing like adjusting my underwear when I thought I was alone. If someone can film me just by looking it's just weird. It really is 1980.
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
12 Mar 09
Hey Barbara! I think that this is sort of cool and interesting,
but I'm not really sure that I would want to be one of the
targets of the "camera"! I do think that it would be of use
for certain types of undercover work, but I don't know how
this is really going to be used. Since he will eventually
have to tell the people he is filming that they have indeed
been filmed I really don't know how it will benefit his purpose.
I guess we will just have to wait and see how all of it unfolds.
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