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Xprize Founder: Humans Behave Better When Watched

Xprize founder Peter Diamandis says humans behave better when watched, describing a planet-wide Sensor Ecosystem of cameras, phones, robots, drones,…

Xprize founder says being watched makes people behave

Peter Diamandis, founder of the Xprize Foundation, has come out in favor of mass surveillance, arguing that humans behave better when they are being watched.

What Diamandis is actually proposing

The mechanism Diamandis points to is what he names a Sensor Ecosystem: a living, multi-layered sensing system wrapped around the planet .

The part the pitch skips over

The technology is real and spreading, and on that narrow point Diamandis, Ellison, and Marshall are correct.

People are not accepting it quietly

Diamandis treats pervasive surveillance as inevitable.

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