now we clamp an exo-hibitor on the condemned, so any movement made with criminal intent will be neuroelectricaly inhibited.
after a learning cycle the exo-inhibitor will recognize behavioral triggers and preempt the intent with cerebral inhibition.
this is where elons neuralink tech should be pointed.
Does work to prevent new criminals. All humans past the age of 5 will be assigned at least one stalker to prevent them from criming and to immediately dole out justice if they do. That's a quick market of 32 billion (8 billion people, 4 shifts of agents to allow charging) paid by governments. Lots of Supercharger installs to keep the batteries fresh.
Slap drones only work in The Culture because the society is so different from ours, and also because it's fictional: everything from the biotech being so much more advanced than us that even the organic Culture citizens are as artificial* as their drones, to their AI being smart enough to run billions of organic minds as simulated consciousnesses, to their society having no money and the closest it recognises to private property being thoughts and memories.
Reality does not have these advantages.
* In that they're engineered, not that they're manufactured, though they could clearly create replacement bodies for your consciousness if you died and wanted to be downloaded.
That said, we're increasingly artificial ourselves; I think it's something like 75% of the nitrogen in our bodies and 25% of the carbon is from the Haber–Bosch process and the burning of fossil fuels respectively?
jethronethro•3mo ago