Surveillance in Science Fiction

NameAuthor (Publication Date)
Neal Stephenson (1995)
Philip K. Dick (1964)
Robert J. Sawyer (2003)
Isaac Asimov (1951)
Manly Wade Wellman (1938)
Roger Zelazny (1966)
Karen Traviss (2004)
Michael Crichton (1985)
Philip K. Dick (1964)
Jack Vance (1954)
Jack Vance (1979)
Edmond Hamilton (1938)
Larry Niven (1972)
George Orwell (1948)
Patricia Jo Clayton (1990)
Larry Niven (1980)
Roger Zelazny (1976)
William Gibson (1988)
Michael Crichton (1985)
James Blish (1957)
Ray Cummings (1930)
Philip K. Dick (1974)
A.E. van Vogt (1945)
Clifford Simak (1952)
Brian Aldiss (1961)
Roger Zelazny (1966)
Paolo Bacigalupi (2015)
Robert Heinlein (1940)
Harry Harrison (1959)
John Twelve Hawks (2014)
John Varley (1977)
Philip K. Dick (1970)
Alexander Besher (1994)
Philip K. Dick (1964)
Spider Robinson (1982)
Isaac Asimov (1953)
Philip K. Dick (1969)
Philip K. Dick (1964)
Edmond Hamilton (1938)
Ray Cummings (1939)
Charles Stross (2007)
Greg Bear (2003)
Ray Cummings (1930)
John Jacob Astor IV (1894)
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1922)
Philip K. Dick (1974)
Brian Herbert (1972)
Ray Cummings (1939)
Jerry Pournelle (w/L. Niven) (1981)
John Brunner (1975)
John Twelve Hawks (2014)
Philip K. Dick (1968)
Clement Fezandie (1921)
Cory Doctorow (2008)
William Gibson (1984)
Philip K. Dick (1955)
Bruce Sterling (1998)
Arthur K. Barnes (1938)
Robert Heinlein (1982)
Steven Spielberg (2002)
Jack Vance (1954)
Jack Vance (1954)
Ray Cummings (1928)
Jack Vance (1979)
Robert Silverberg (1969)
Greg Bear (2009)
Philip K. Dick (1960)
Harry Harrison (1959)
Jack Williamson (1931)
Raymond Z. Gallun (1936)
Nat Schachner (1932)
Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat) (1931)
J.G. Ballard (1962)
Frank Herbert (1984)
William Gibson (1988)
Alfred Bester (1974)
David Gerrold (1985)
Neal Stephenson (1995)
Roger Zelazny (1980)
David Brin (1990)
Isaac Asimov (1951)
E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith (1934)
Isaac Asimov (1951)
Jack Vance (1964)
Nat Schachner (1937)
Philip K. Dick (1963)
George Orwell (1948)
Roger Zelazny (1980)
Gosho Aoyama (1994)
Patricia Jo Clayton (1990)
Robert Heinlein (1941)
David Brin (1990)
Christopher Anvil (1972)
Harry Harrison (1956)
Nat Schachner (1937)
William Gibson (1996)
John Twelve Hawks (2005)
Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
Gosho Aoyama (1994)
Larry Niven (1996)
Roger Zelazny (1980)
Ray Cummings (1936)

 

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‘He reached to unsnap the cartograph from his belt.’- Jack Williamson, 1931.
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‘The real border was… a swarm of quasi-independent aerostats.’ – Neal Stephenson, 1995.
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‘A photograph, taken from space, of part of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. And see!’ – Jack Williamson, 1931.
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‘Hovered behind him like a large tame bee…’ – Karen Traviss, 2004.
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‘Almost all our locks are phonographic.’ – Clement Fezandie, 1921.
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‘There is no danger of a vehicle’s speed exceeding that allowed in the section in which it happens to be…’- John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
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‘…the Scarab… transmitting to its manipulator, far away now, all that … it saw with its minute vision tubes.’ – Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936.
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‘Sound trackers on the roof could zero in on weapons action…’ – Greg Bear, 2007.
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Drone Catches Drone! In Japan
‘The real border was defended by… a swarm of quasi-independent aerostats.’ – Neal Stephenson, 1995
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Every sub commander wants a Flying Sub!
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‘A television set that would see through walls…’ – Nat Schachner, 1936.
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‘Through the lenses of those goggles Costigan’s keen and highly-trained eyes studied every concealed detail…’ – EE ‘Doc’ Smith, 1934.
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‘They began to flex their wings.’ –
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‘Each a television eye and a sonic stunner…’ – Larry Niven, 1972.
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Try keeping your eyes shut, Mr. Anderton.
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‘What I have in this camera is not a record of what you did just now but what will go on here in the next half hour…’- Philip K. Dick, 1964.
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‘Basketball-sized, twelve feet up… they were there to enforce the law…’- Larry Niven, 1972.
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Are you who you say you are?
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‘Let’s hear it for the vague blur!’- Philip K. Dick, 1977.
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‘Mr Gant, you must think in Russian. Can you do that?’- 1982 film ‘Firefox’
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‘The City Fathers overheard everything one said…’ – James Blish, 1957.
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Replace those ID cards… with ID chips!
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‘Workarounds were illegal and the fines were expensive…’- Greg Bear 2007.
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We’ve got the idea, DARPA. Or we’re getting it.
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‘the Scarab buzzed into the great workroom… and sought the security of a shadowed corner.’- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936.
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‘Over a radius of several miles Sonya’s raytron apparatus could direct its flight…’- Ray Cummings, 1928.
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‘Over a radius of several miles Sonya’s raytron apparatus could direct its flight [using] an image of all that the lens eye saw.’- Ray Cummings, 1928.
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‘Watching, all the time watching… goggle-eye geeks…’- David Brin, 1990.
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‘Let’s hear it for the vague blur!’- Philip K. Dick, 1977.
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‘Sound trackers on the roof…’- Greg Bear, 2007.
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‘All day long the idiots babbled…’- Philip K. Dick, 1956.
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‘Copseyes floated overhead… each a sonic stunner… they were there to enforce the law…’- Larry Niven, 1972
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‘It was not a large office, but it was quite spy-proof and quite undetectably so.’- Isaac Asimov, 1951
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Ready to be monitored?
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‘There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.’- George Orwell, 1948.
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‘The prototype blue-bellied, gray-backed tracer-bird with the wide-angle eye…’- Roger Zelazny, 1980.
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Google’s Skin Tattoo Lie Detector
‘Three and a half centimetres in diameter, permanently fixed in the centre of his forehead.’- Brian Aldiss, 1961.
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‘…a million and a half physiognomic fraction-representations of various people…’- Philip K. Dick, 1977
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Mock Drone Attack On German Chancellor
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Smartphone Monitoring Trashcans Binned
‘The can intoned. “Galveston appreciates good citizenship.’- Bruce Sterling, 1988.
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NSA Data Mining And ‘Cybernetic Water Witches’
‘He was an intuitive fisher of patterns of information…’- William Gibson, 1996.
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‘I’m Bill Behren… Operator of fly 33408…’- Philip K. Dick, 1964.
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‘Is that Dumbledore in his study?’
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‘There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.’- George Orwell, 1948.
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‘Sound trackers on the roof could zero in on weapons action…’-Greg Bear, 2007.
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‘When he had first built them, they had been crude indeed, flying mechanisms with little more than a reflex-response unit.’- Philip E. High, 1968.
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AXON Flex And Stross’ Cop Specs
‘Arriving on SOC… Start evidence log.” [E]verything you see on duty goes into the black box.’- Charles Stross, 2007.
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India Opts For Nationwide Iris Scanning
‘The road you’re on, John Anderton, is the one less traveled…’- Steven Spielberg, 2002.
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Black Hornet Nano UAV Used By British Troops
‘The Scarab paused on its perch for a moment…’- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936.
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Anti-Drone Hoodies And Burqas Counter Surveillance
No, this isn’t the citizen you’re looking for.
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Can’t Wait For My Robot Dragonfly!
‘It studied its surroundings, transmitting to its manipulator… all that it heard through its ear microphones and saw with its minute vision tubes.’ – Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936.
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Merchants Get Face-Recognition Via The Cloud
‘The road you’re on, John Anderton, is the one less traveled…’- Steven Spielberg, 2002.
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Computerized Surveillance Devices Open Their Eyes
‘How often… the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.’- George Orwell, 1948.
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CCTV Camera Watches, Attached LCD Tells You How To Behave
‘It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.’
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sFly UAVs Swarm Together For SAR
Fascinating project from the European Union shows an autonomous 500g UAV.
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Cell Phones To See Through Walls
‘They’d been trying to make a television set that would see through walls…’
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Camouflage To Confound Face Recognition
‘The wearer of a scramble suit was Everyman and in every combination.’
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School Kids In Brazil Now Wear ‘Chipped’ T-shirts
‘Education does not transform the world.’ Surveillance does, though.
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Seatlle Police Drones Overhead Now
Soon, you’ll be seeing this tech flying over every town in America. Or maybe you won’t see it; they’re pretty small.
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FBI To Monitor Social Media
Have you been sharing everything on social networks? Guess who wants to be a lurker?
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Van-Mounted Body Scanners Mock Your Idea Of Privacy
Scanning now for weapons, who knows what future scans will reveal about you?
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Total Recall Security Tunnels Proposed
‘No wonder you’re having nightmares, you’re always watching the news.’
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Surveillance Robots Learn To Hide
This robot listens for the sound of footfalls, and then hides.
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DARPA’s ‘Biometrics-At-A-Distance’ Knows You By Heart
Your heart is calling out to DARPA, just like E.T.’s heart called out to the mothership.
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Drones Stick Tight, Remember Your Face
This technology makes drones smarter.
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Emotion Detector Like PKD’s Voight-Kampff Empathy Test
This device was predicted by Philip K. Dick forty years ago.
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Surveillance Drone Bird Crashes
If it really is a surveillance drone, whose is it?
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Lockheed Samurai MAV Drone
That’s no maple seed; that’s a micro-air vehicle.
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Firefly Cameras Shot From Grenade Launcher
How about one launched from space?
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ZionEyez HD Camera Glasses
In case you were wondering what those Flip video camera engineers have been up to lately.
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iPet Companion Provides Remote Kitteh Interaction
Will your company require you to play with kittens on sanity breaks?
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‘Police POV’ Uses On-Officer Cameras
Check out this new police reality television show; it uses technology introduced decades ago by sf writers and movie makers.
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Robotic Hummingbird Spy
This tiny prototype weighs just 19 grams and has its own onboard video camera.
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Cougar20-H Robot Hears Your Breathing
Just hold your breath to avoid detection.
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Mall Robotic Ad Won’t Leave You Alone
Does this sound familiar, Belgian shoppers? ‘Morris pushed wearily past the salesrobot, up the sidewalk toward the residential-block that contained his living-unit.’
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Wasp Micro-UAV Used By Texas SWAT
Tiny surveillance drones are starting to appear over US cities.
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What US city will be the first to deploy surveillance drones developed by the military?
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Polaroid GL20 Video Sunglasses
Lady Gaga demonstrates this product, which she designed with Polaroid.
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This device is able to look down and photograph a four square kilometer section of a city. But that’s all. For now.
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ETH Quadcopters Perform Jingle Bells On Real Piano
They can do more than just watch you; they can entertain you over the holidays.
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The more efficiently a UAV can maneuver, the longer it can stay on station. Birds have millions of years of experience; let them teach us.
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Outlandish Disguise Fools Airline Security
I’m not sure if disguises are getting better or people are becoming more desperate.
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CamBall Smallest Personal Camcorder
Yes, but can you drop them from orbit?
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Making Drone Aircraft Smarter
If you want smarter planes, why not just give them the brains of a pilot?
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Canon Wonder Camera Concept
Why do big companies insist on intruding on the domain of sf writers? Philip K. Dick has this concept beat, hands down.
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Scarab Robotic Chase Vehicle Concept
An all-electric chase vehicle for use by police. Sounds like a science-fictional concept to me.
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SmartIris IDs People In Crowds
Surveillance of public spaces just got easier, thanks to this DARPA program.
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Perching Project Drones Wait For You
A surveillance officer’s dream, flocks of these little drones may be perching in cities near you one day.
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Quadrotor UAV Makes First Arrest In UK
Looks like a UAV has assisted in its first arrest in the UK.
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School Surveillance Via Student Laptop Webcams
Cory Doctorow alerted us to this possibility – and provides the solution.
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Police iDrone UAVs With Tasers
The idea of a small flying surveillance vehicle that does more than just watch has been around for quite a while.
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Panopticlick Browser Ident-Key You Didn’t Know You Had
If your device fingerprint is unique, every web page you access can be tracked. Which sf author saw this problem coming almost fifty years ago?
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Herti Drones To Surveil UK Civilians
Autonomous drones designed for military operations in Afganistan come home to keep close tabs on you and me.
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HAMLeT Hazardous Material Localization And Person Tracking
This system can actually track the movement of a person carrying a banned material; can you name the movie that used a similar system?
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DEXI Scanner Looks Inside Air Travelers
How far will we go in searching air travelers?
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Parrott AR.Drone Quadricopter Video
Gamers and surveillance dweebs alike will exclaim ‘There’s an app for that!’
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Samurai CCTV System Targets Suspicious People
And you used to be concerned about human beings watching you on CCTVs, looking for suspicious behavior.
(re: Arthur C. Clarke, 12/26/2009 )
Head-Mounted Cameras For San Jose Police
These cameras record what the police officer sees; they can download it at the end of their shift.
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ViconRevue Records Every Minute of Your Life
The SenseCam will be produced commercially by a UK company
(re: Roger Zelazny, 10/20/2009 )
Yes, Internet Eyes Is A ‘Snooper’s Paradise’
New UK (where else?) website will let you, the anonymous snitcher, surveil your fellow citizens in the comfort of your own home.
(re: Ray Bradbury, 10/11/2009 )
See Through Walls With Wireless Networks
This technology for surveillance actually uses WiFi networks to figure out how many people are in a room and where they are.
(re: Nat Schachner, 10/1/2009 )
Secret GPS Tracking Devices Legal
Tracking an individual just got a little bit easier.
(re: Various, 9/19/2009 )
Eye-bot Lands On Your Ceiling
Yes, look up – what’s that? A ceiling fan you didn’t know you had? No, it’s a surveillance drone with excellent autonomous capabilities. With video. Smile for the camera!
(re: Jack Vance, 8/21/2009 )
iPhone UAV Drone Control App
It won’t be long now. I’ll be reading some technothriller novel, and I’ll read ‘Sonya looked across to the neighboring building and eased her iPhone out of her purse. Selecting the proper app, she took control of the drone’s final approach.’
(re: Ray Cummings, 8/10/2009 )
Aeryon Scout UAV Gets Upgrades
This little UAV has come a long way in just a year; it’s a pretty close match to one of Jack Vance’s ideas.
(re: Jack Vance, 8/4/2009 )
In-Home Surveillance For 20K Brit Families
Not content with constant monitoring by more CCTV cameras per person than any other nation, Britain wants to put them in the homes of problem families as well.
(re: Pournelle and Niven, 8/3/2009 )
Surveillance By Flying Saucer
UPDATED with new sf reference and video. Very well-behaved saucer-shaped surveillance drone certainly looks more cool than other hovering drones.
(re: Michael Crichton, 7/29/2009 )
Cheaters May No Longer Prosper
Interesting experiment shows a very specific difference between liars and truth-tellers.
(re: H. Beam Piper, 7/17/2009 )
Face Recognition Now Sees Through Disguises
Just when you thought your fake mustache and horn rim glasses were enough, clever software designers march on.
(re: Philip K. Dick, 7/16/2009 )
Robo-Bat Has Shape Memory Alloy Joints
Cutting edge materials used for bones, joints and muscles make this robotic bat as light as possible.
(re: Raymond Z. Gallun, 7/8/2009 )
AMOLED E-Passport W/Rotating Mugshot
This active matrix organic light emitting diode is no mere digital hokey-pokey; it’s a three-dimensional driver’s license photo, or (as Jack Vance might call it) a tri-type record.
(re: Jack Vance, 6/20/2009 )
Flexible Polymer Fiber Camera
This technology could be used to create a foldable telescope or a camera that is integrated into clothing.
(re: Larry Niven, 6/19/2009 )
Human-Injectable Satellite Tracking Chip
Unfortunately, someone has tried to patent a fifty year-old idea of Jack Vance’s; we could all live without it, even as Vance’s character would have preferred in the novel.
(re: Jack Vance, 6/18/2009 )
Stealthy, Persistent Perch and Stare UAVs
Yet another DARPA program that proves they’ve been reading great science fiction from the Thirties (and beyond).
(re: Raymond Z. Gallun, 6/4/2009 )
Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System
This device hovers over the urban battlefield, directed remotely (using a modified Xbox controller), with significant armament.
(re: Larry Niven, 5/21/2009 )
Brain Scan Biometric Security
Philip K. Dick proves once again that he had the future sussed; it appears that your brain scan can be used as a ‘fingerprint’.
(re: Philip K. Dick, 5/14/2009 )
GandhiCam For Blackberry Auto-Uploads Sousveillance
Interesting application turns ordinary Blackberry into a civil resistance tool.
(re: David Brin, 4/18/2009 )
Yahoo Japan’s Minority Report Billboards
Do you really want to walk past a screen, and then find out what a corporate face recognition algorithm thinks you are – young or old, rich or poor, male or female?
(re: Stephen Spielberg, 4/13/2009 )
Smart Dew Sensor Monitoring
Not quite dust-sized, but we’re getting closer.
(re: Stanislaw Lem, 3/31/2009 )
Perspiration As Biometric Identification
Would it be faster to just get sniffed at an airline checkpoint, as opposed to showing ID?
(re: Jim Thomas, 3/24/2009 )
UK School Face Recognition: Kiddie Orwell Tech
Surveillance of schools now an enjoyable activity, claims UK school principals.
(re: Schachner and Zagat, 3/15/2009 )
Spatial Memories Seen In Hippocampus fMRI
With this new technique, it was demonstrated that spatial memories can be seen by others using fMRI, bringing at least one Farscape technology closer to life.
(re: Various, 3/13/2009 )
Micro Imagers For Sensing On Nano Air Vehicles
Tiny eyes are needed for tiny surveillance drones – and DARPA’s MSI program is designing them.
(re: Neal Stephenson, 3/9/2009 )
Minority Report Ads Watching You Always
Those Minority Report ads that looked stylish in 2002 are starting to look a bit more intrusive now.
(re: Steven Spielberg, 1/30/2009 )
RFID-Enabled Poker Table
This project brings to mind several new possibilities for poker players and poker tournament audiences.
(re: Various, 12/21/2008 )
Micro Air Vehicle Video Shows SF Style
This is a pretty cool concept video that lays out the ideas; Zelazny, Gallun, Dick, Vance and Noon all wrote about something similar.
(re: Various, 12/15/2008 )
Eyeborg ‘Little Brother’
Would you feel unhappy about being filmed by someone with an eyeball camera? How do you feel when you are filmed in the mall or in a convenience store? Rob Spence wants to know.
(re: D.G. Compton, 12/14/2008 )
Marauder’s Map From RFID Plus Social Networking
Thanks to the Open Attendee Meta-Data (OpenAMD) system and SocioPatterns.org, a version of the HP Marauder’s Map will come to life.
(re: Cory Doctorow, 12/8/2008 )
Precrime CCTV Cameras Now In Britain
Portsmouth now sports a CCTV camera system that can detect crimes before they happen – sometimes.
(re: Philip K. Dick, 11/28/2008 )
Boeing A160 Hummingbird Has Whisper Mode
This autonomous surveillance drone helicopter has something in common with the fictional movie copter Blue Thunder.
(re: Various, 11/24/2008 )
I-Ball Grenade Cam Just Lob And View
Unique surveillance device can be tossed, lobbed or even grenade launched; it sends back 360 degree views.
(re: Robert Silverberg, 11/19/2008 )
SOTHOC Submarine-Launched UAV
Submerged submarines will have more information-gathering options with this sub-launched Submarine Over the Horizon Organic Capabilities device.
(re: Various, 10/30/2008 )
You Can’t Hide From DARPA
DARPA wants to be able to fully visualize the interior of a ten-story building – right into the basement – without having to obtain the architect’s drawings.
(re: Various, 10/24/2008 )
‘Hug And Kiss’ Baby Ankle Monitor
This handy pair of devices keep mothers and children together in crowded hospitals.
(re: Philip K. Dick, 10/11/2008 )
DARPA Gandalf Project And Philip K. Dick
The ability to target a single individual is one of Philip K. Dick’s personal nightmares; he had a very special understanding of the military mind.
(re: Philip K. Dick, 10/11/2008 )
Future Attribute Screening Technologies Precrime Detector
You’d better be thinking nice thoughts the next time you go anywhere that DHS has a portable precrime detector handy – the FAST M2.
(re: Philip K. Dick, 9/24/2008 )
Brando Spy Glassses Have Camera, Player Built-in
Possibly first occurrence of a pair of glasses with both camera and player built into the frames.
(re: David Brin, 9/22/2008 )
Minority Report Iris Scanners Ordered By US Army
Mr. Anderton! A new future awaits you, thanks to the new iris scanning technology that will let the military take your iris scan anytime, without your knowledge.
(re: Steven Spielberg, 9/22/2008 )
Spy Satellite Gait Analysis ID’s You
Amazing technical development may make routine identification possible from orbit.
(re: Various, 9/5/2008 )
Draganflyer X6 Helicopter Has HD Camera
Now, that’s some stylish surveillance gear; the included video should push all your buttons.
(re: Philip K. Dick, 8/28/2008 )
ContactPoint Database To End Anonymity In UK?
This vast database has a checkered past before it is even implemented.
(re: Buck Rogers, 8/26/2008 )
Zephyr Solar Plane Sails For Days
This plane proves you can never be too thin or too ultralight; it may be a precursor to the Vulture program announced earlier in 2008.
(re: Roger Zelazny, 8/25/2008 )
Robot Aircraft To Ride Thermal Air Currents
New research will provide UAVs with a fuel-saving alternative that has helped flyers stay aloft for millions of years.
(re: Roger Zelazny, 8/21/2008 )

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