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MapQuest vs. the Panopticon

Jesse Walker | 1.12.2003 1:29 AM

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An outfit called the Institute for Applied Autonomy has created a program that "shows, to the best of its information, the location of surveillance nodes in New York City, then draws the shortest, surveillance-free path between any two points." To see it in action, go here.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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