> the most serious human-made risks include a bio-attack pandemic, a global exchange of thermonuclear bombs, the emergence of an artificial superintelligence that’s unfriendly to humans, and the spectre of nanotechnology-enabled weapons of mass destruction.

the article proceeds to have a lot of discussion about nanotechnology and other very sci-fi topics

Ultimately the article offers Panoptic Smart Dust Sousveillance(PSDS) as a solution.

> “We would finally have an answer to Juvenal’s question from Roman antiquity “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’ (Who watches the watchers?),” said van Nedervelde. “And the answer will be: We, the people, the citizenry, ourselves — which would be wholly appropriate, in my view.”

Naive, in my view. Those in power would never consent to being surveilled. Especially when they could be profiting(power and money) off heightened surveillance and control of others.