Surveillance is inevitable as a result of technological advancement.<p>It will either be centralized or decentralized.<p>Individuals freely recording and sharing and collating their data can also be dystopian, of course.<p>But surveillance also means accountability. For both individuals and authorities.<p>Deepfakes mean that we will need ways to verify the authenticity and timestamp of recordings. And this will be solved as well.<p>This could lead to a world in which violent crime and abuse of authority is almost always recorded.<p>It also means no privacy, enabling digital lynch mobs, and enabling totalitarianism.<p>Fending off lynch mobs, preventing totalitarianism, and finding ways to carve out sensible levels of privacy are all open perennial questions.