When there's too much wiring

Wiring the world and fixating everyone with GPS was something an acquaintance of mine in IT once gushed about at a dinner party.

Just think, he said, as if attempted total awareness hadn't been abused in the past, we could achieve instant responses to accidents, mishaps, weather in near-real time, and and and...

Too much power corrupts. If one's government becomes like its adversaries, it has lost its identity. Total government surveillance also tempts belief in the myth of total security. Over-reliance on surviellance can camouflage the brilliant and or resourceful enemy who learns to exploit the comfort-zone created by that technology. Enemies adapt.

Humint must balance technology.