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Police Drones In China Would Like To Have A Word With You

Police drones in China are not content to just watch you.

In Cities in Flight, a 1950's series by James Blish, the machine intelligences that controlled the city listened all the time and sometimes told people what to do:

"...That'll give us a day to get out of this system before the cops come running... Incidentally, it also gives us a day to collect our pay-"

"OVERRIDE," the City Fathers said suddenly, without being asked anything at all.

"Woof! Sorry. Either I've already said one word too many, or I was going to. Can't say anything else, Chris."

"But I thought they never volunteered information."

"They don't," Anderson said. "That wasn't volunteered. They are under orders from Amalfi to monitor talk about this situation and shut it up when it begins to get too loose..."

I believe that light pole surveillance cameras in Britain are also free to talk back to you, but I can't find the reference.

Here's a CCTV Camera Watching You, While Attached LCD Tells You How To Behave:

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