Global Neighborhood Watch

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"Windows are the best crime-prevention devices of all, if you only bother to look out of them. The virtual windows on a computer screen could serve the same function, linking distant places into a distributed neighborhood."

- Neal Stephenson, "Global Neighborhood Watch"

Neal Stephenson, cyberpunk visionary and author of Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, contributed the essay "Global Neighborhood Watch" to Scenarios: The Future of the Future. The article is a call to arms for concerned, techno-savvy citizens; Stephenson outlays a plan to prototype a home-computer-networked surveillance system to track crime at strategic points across the globe. kadrey says: Welcome to another interview in our series with writers and thinkers who contributed to Wired's *Scenario: The Future of the Future* special issue. Tonight's guest is Neal Stephenson, best known as the author of such heavy-weight science fiction novels Snowcrash and The Diamond Age. kadrey asks: In the Scenarios issue, Neal contributed an essay/proposal entitled "Global Neighborhood Watch." For anyone who might have missed it, can you explain the basic concept of the Global Neighborhood Watch project?

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