The end of privacy?

I was kind of bullshitting with some friends over beers last night, when I came up with a frightful concept. Just think about the march of technology. Now, how long do you think it will be, before you’ll be able to spend the equivalent of $5 and come home with a hundred or so web-cam quality cameras, the size of a button, magnetic, and with wi-fi and GPS built-in?

Now, with the world flush in cameras like that, how long before someone sets up a Napster or Pirate Bay-style interface, so you can dial in an address, and come up with direct access to the three or four hundred button cameras that are linked-in near that address. Think live Street View, times 100.

We think we’re in an age of ubiquitous information right now, but I don’t think we’ve even scratched the surface.