This company in the United
Kingdom sets it up so that
lots of people who have nothing
to do and want to
watch stuff can watch CCTV all
day waiting for something bad
to happen and report it.
If not enough bad things happen,
you consult the video
with fake bad things that keep
them watching because here's
how it says viewers register
for free with
no recurring fees.
Now that's version 1.0.
Let's fast forward to just after
the disputed elections
in Iran where there were
protests in the streets.
And before too long there was
a website put up, affiliated
with the government, that simply
had the pictures of
protesters they couldn't
identify and importuned people
to report them.
Now there's a ceiling as
to how many reports
they're going to get.
Because the people most likely
to know people are the ones
also realizing what might happen
and least likely to
want to report them.
But you start to see the ways
in which having such a ready
supply, that innovation, leads
to cascade effects of
innovation.
