Xprize Founder Insists All the New Tech That’s Surveilling Humans Makes Us ‘Behave Better’

An Xprize founder argues that surveillance technology makes us behave better—imagining a world of trillions of monitoring sensors that nudge good conduct. But io9 raises a sharper question: in such a panopticon, who actually gets monitored? And does constant watching change behavior, or does it simply concentrate power?

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