Use of The Concept in Brin's Other Works
Brin has introduced versions of the concept into his fiction.
In Earth, the setting's future history includes a war pitting most of the Earth against Switzerland, fueled by outrage over the Swiss allowing generations of kleptocrats to hide their stolen wealth in the country's secretive banks. The war results in the end of secret banking and the destruction of Switzerland as a nation. In the setting's present, surveillance by elderly retirees wearing recognizable networked camera-glasses is common.
His novel Kiln People is set in a future where cameras are everywhere and anyone can access the public ones and, for a fee, the private ones.
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