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"A tracking device can instantly report its location to a GIS that determines whether the person, car or ship under surveillance has entered a prohibited area. Depending on circumstances and severity, a future system might be able to debit an offender's bank account, transmit a vocal warning or electronic pinch, notify the police or military, disable an engine, or even release a soporific drug into the violator's bloodstream.
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Once in place, a national geospatial surveillance administration can accommodate an ever-wider variety of electronic boundary lines, and offer disgruntled taxpayers an alternative to costly incarceration.
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Boundaries developed for one purpose are too easily adopted for another, as when postal codes (designed merely to speed up mail delivery) are used to set rates for car insurance."
Originally from All Points Blog by reBlogged to on Jul 6, 2010, 6:51AM