What Google didn’t achieve with its “glasses,” the Chinese state will achieve – by putting the glasses on the American “giant.” Because being able to monitor each other so openly through Google glasses was something premature for the proto-cosmic social relations, where many want to do it but don’t want it done to them.
On the contrary, the Chinese state proves to be more practical. It equips its police officers with glasses that have micro-cameras and an internet connection to a database. The micro-cameras can photograph any “suspects” and send their photos to the central station, where, through facial recognition software, the center identifies them and alerts the patrol officer about one or the other.
The speed at which this exchange of information takes place is unknown to us; but we have confidence in Chinese technologists. They will surely do their best.
And so the Chinese regime adds yet another sector in which it takes the lead. It’s no secret: many in the “first world,” technocrats and human managers, envy the comprehensive way in which Beijing utilizes and develops “social governance”…