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I recently read an article entitled "Fighting Crime with Technology."  It sounds like an admirable goal, until you read closer and learn that that much of "technology" means surveillance cameras.  In our town alone there are 250 cameras placed at intersections, with 47 more on order. What started as a way to monitor traffic flow has become ubiquitous monitoring, recording life on the street 24/7 with some streams even shown as live feed into the call center.  

The cameras will undoubtedly capture snippets of your life, but what if one was focused only on you for 24 hours or a week?  What would they learn?  Think about how much "better" you might behave if you knew someone was watching what you ate, if you buckled down at work or shopped via your computer, whether or not you exercised, the way you treated other people and how you used your time.  What would your 24 hour video say about your values and dreams?

In a way, we are all being monitored 24/7.  Someone is always interacting with our organization or seeing part of our legacy.  You don't need Big Brother to be watching to be your best self.  Just pretend the camera is on and be a star in your own show.

-- beth triplett
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Source:  Fighting Crime with Technology by Alicia Yager, Telegraph Herald, October 6, 2013