The Committee to Nuke Elysium

A post-privacy world, increasingly operated by generations that traded privacy for connectivity and interactivity, naturally features the onerous spectre of surveillance. The future you move into, however, will be characterised by inverse surveillance: the open monitoring of authority objects. The flow of statistics into the street. The point of a “digital city” is a city that reports to you, not on you.

Extend that out of the cities. Build your 3G masts and your chains of Wi-Fi routers so that your fields and woodlands and towpaths can speak to you as clearly as your roads and squares. Yours may be the last generation where a child can get lost