Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Chris -- yup, that too -- actually the cop won't even have to sit anywhere in particular or spend any time actually scanning anything -- sensors (which will continually be pinging us with very significant bursts of RF/microwave energy they'll emit so that they're able to read the RFID chips at longer distances, I believe currently already capable of reading beyond 100 meters) will be everywhere, and all the info automatically gathered will be immediately processed by and immediately available to anyone with access to the system -- say somebody wants you to have a bad day, say perhaps because they don't like what you've been saying (by any means, including just talking with someone on the street thanks to the extremely sensitive and capable mikes/audio systems that are going into the rapidly proliferating newer generations of full-motion day/night surveillance cameras) or who've you've been saying it to -- they just ask the system where you are and, with the click of a mouse, relay your real-time info to the desired local elements and dispatch them to 'assist' you . . .

whether folks 'get' it or not, it's all very real and the first major stage of its implementation is already well under way (also very importantly including the manifold and not only continuing but accelerating efforts on/deployments of the 'system' itself, its computers, computer networks and data-mining software, that we have variously known as Carnivore, Echelon and John Poindexter's supposedly terminated Total, er make that Terrorism, Information Awareness)