We’re quickly becoming a nation of cradle to grave surveillance, from networked baby monitors after birth to cameras in the schools (and now college dorms), cameras at work, cameras where you shop, cameras on the roads, cameras in your car, cameras where you die. It’s still unusual to have cameras inside the home after early childhood, unless you have a robot vacuum or certain TVs, but I’m sure that’s the next frontier. (Those might even be redundant with wifi motion/wifi sensing on ISP routers and ubiquitous “smart” microphones.)

I still can’t believe how quickly this all came about. Cameras were rare and obvious when I was young. And we mostly just let it happen.