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...in terms of smart sensors and security.

Or perhaps, "in terms of the rapidly closing vice of state-sponsored dystopian surveillance?" Dense, authoritarian and technocratic cities like London, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea's will be some of the first to suffer under the all-seeing eye of omnipresent computer-annotated, database-retained vision. Corporate cubicle workers will slip further apart from the masses in to the corporate acultural dystopias predicted by science fiction... and in the case of those already housed by their employer (eg. many in South Korean 'chebol' megacorps), who's to say residential zone behavioural profiling will not begin in earnest?



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