I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't have cameras on every street corner.

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

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