Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"

ellison articulating the panopticon-as-a-service architecture we’re building. worth reading not for the orwell comparison (predictable) but as a concrete description of the stack: ubiquitous sensors + real-time video processing + automated decision-making. the dystopia angle misses the pragmatic question: we’re already deploying this incrementally across traffic enforcement, workplace monitoring, and social media scanning. the interesting technical problem isn’t whether it’s bad—it’s that the infrastructure decisions made today (centralization, retention policies, audit trails) determine what becomes possible tomorrow. ellison’s essentially describing the natural conclusion of current trajectories, not a hypothetical.