Shot spotter. First indications that microphones are present in the city.
Shot spotter technology is an array of microphones located in strategic locations in a city where when a gun shot is heard the microphones would in real time locate where it came from. Cameras that come with it would automatically turn to the point where it came from.
Technology has allowed access into the homes via the powerline, phone lines, through the air and now microphones in the streets. Lets face it if it has come this far with microphones in the city then devices that will silently talk back to you such as holosonic devices that create mid air speakers in the city is probably already there outside your home. They listen in and talk back to you. It is all a question of perception, interfering with ones thoughts will create a monotones society with the flow of creativity being interrupted. That is my only concern here that as an artist I would like to think that my work is my own. My thoughts my own and not interrupted according to some design to maintain a balance. The city’s infrastructure will be used to hide these devices: lamposts, traffic lights, outside of buildings, car parks, schools, train stations, tube underground stations, etc. Conversations will be recorded and stored. Areas will be graded according to the “flavour” of the conversations that come from the area. Almost surely households will be mapped according to the conversations that come from them. Society has matured far enough for all this to be possible.
Shot spotter locations, mainly in north America and some internationally:
Digital justice:
Sound of the TETRA signal
Shhhhh no talking.