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11-15-2007, 07:38 PM
Liz Hand once pointed me to a news article that suggested that an idea of mine (in Snow, a story from the 70's) might actually be coming to be. In the story a miniaturized flying surveillance device is programmed to follow a single individual, record their actions and interactions, and transmit the results. (In my story you elect to have this device, called a Wasp, because you are storing up a record of your life for relatives to see after your death).
Well here's this week's News of the Weird with a note taken from the Washington Post:
As several sightings were made around Washington, D.C., of dragonfly-looking bugs hovering in the air at political events, government agencies were denying that they had released any tiny surveillance robots, according to an October Washington Post investigation. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?'" asked a college student at an antiwar rally in Washington. "They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But ... those are not insects." Several agencies and private entities admitted to the Post that they were trying to develop such devices, but no one took credit for having them in the air yet. [Washington Post, 10-9-07]
Needs some work, but there it is. (In the same story -- which I supposed would be happening about now -- I proposed silent airfoil snowmobiles called Snow Leopards and predicted that the Interstates would be closed to all but those bearing Highway Access Permits or HAPpy cards -- but hey.)
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Well here's this week's News of the Weird with a note taken from the Washington Post:
As several sightings were made around Washington, D.C., of dragonfly-looking bugs hovering in the air at political events, government agencies were denying that they had released any tiny surveillance robots, according to an October Washington Post investigation. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?'" asked a college student at an antiwar rally in Washington. "They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But ... those are not insects." Several agencies and private entities admitted to the Post that they were trying to develop such devices, but no one took credit for having them in the air yet. [Washington Post, 10-9-07]
Needs some work, but there it is. (In the same story -- which I supposed would be happening about now -- I proposed silent airfoil snowmobiles called Snow Leopards and predicted that the Interstates would be closed to all but those bearing Highway Access Permits or HAPpy cards -- but hey.)
(Original Post) (http://crowleycrow.livejournal.com/70773.html)