Robotic Nation Evidence

CNN.com - Olympics' digital security unprecedented

From the article:

If you're going to the Olympics, you'd better be careful what you say and do in public.

Software will be watching and listening.

Recent leaps in technology have paired highly sophisticated software with street surveillance cameras to create digital security guards with intelligence-gathering skills.

Also:

It gathers images and audio from an electronic web of over 1,000 high-resolution and infrared cameras, 12 patrol boats, 4,000 vehicles, nine helicopters, a sensor-laden blimp and four mobile command centers.

This is an extremely good example of a Robotic Bubble. As we create humanoid robotic guards and armed robotic security forces these bubbles will get bigger and much tighter.

The bubble around Washington is being noted in articles like these:

• Street Closing Irks D.C. Leaders (washingtonpost.com): "...set up 14 vehicle checkpoints, creating a huge security perimeter around powerful symbols..."
  
  
• The New York Times: Safety Precautions Transform Appearance of Capitol Hill

It is very easy to imagine the day when you cannot enter any American city unless you have permission to do so. They will all be protected by bubbles.

See also Robotic Surveillance and Manna for details.