Dr. Lester K. Spence

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The Future is Here-Dragonfly surveillance

October 10, 2007 By: The Good Doctor Category: afrofuturism

I wrote a story set in a military installation years ago, based on a vivid dream I had. The details of the story remain fuzzy…and it’s likely that I never completed it. One thing I do remember though was the idea of cameras embedded in tiny mechanical objects the size of dragonflies. They would be used for riot surveillance, and inevitably, control.

Gametime.

Combine this with the fact that we’re less than five years away from invisible fabric?

  • I think These men may be mapping out the next hundred years for urban populations in cities across the planet. At the conference, at least, which ones exactly seemed beside the point. Who could know, after all, whether in, say, 2045, the target would be Mumbai, Lagos, or Karachi - though one speaker did offhandedly mention Jakarta, Indonesia, a city of nine million today, as a future possibility.
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