Implementing Everyware: A False Hope?

Reading through Everyware, it is obvious of the sheer potential and capabilities that can be reached using such an omnipresent suite of applications. The Thesis over using EveryWare as a means to prevent and control crime as well as improve overall security is a tricky situation to deal with. The amount of control and supervision capable of being implemented through the use of Everyware applications could effectively end or severely hinder the continuation of crime in the area. Even without the wide range of applications possible, current technology is able to, under the right circumstances, track and process a person's actions. Using the ticket system of the New York City metro line, NYPD has already had moderate success in using applied environmentally aware technology to track down suspects. The problem arises when this type of potential software system is introduced on a wide scale basis. Whatever unlucky person or company proposes that such a drastic system be implemented on a city and/or nationwide scale will almost immediately be met with claims of solely using the system potential as a pawn of the power hungry elite or for solely using the network to deprive people of their basic freedoms granted from the Bill of Rights. Not to say that such a fear is completely unfounded, but regardless of how good an omnipresent network of applications improves daily life and standards of living, detractors will always cite the potential abuse as a means to never implement such a system. The present day use of video cameras and RFD tags already incites fears in the less outward thinking citizenry that "Big Brother" is constantly policing them. Opposition such as the NRA is powerful enough to influence congressional acts and ruin peoples reputations based solely on their whims. If an equally powerful organization were to result from the bias against an Everyware type of system, the potential of what could be accomplished wil more than likely never be fully realized.