Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future

http://www.ted.com The world is becoming increasingly open, and that has implications both bright and dangerous. Marc Goodman paints a portrait of a grave future, in which technology's rapid development could allow crime to take a turn for the worse.
MrFisksays...

Cops are a paranoid lot.

Is this guy implying all criminals are terrorists? Because he starts with drug dealers in Mexico, and then leaps to terrorists in India.

According to him, it started with knives and guns. Then it went to trains. Well, no shit. I assume after trains, people robbed cars. Imagine that!

And he's worried about printing weapons when we don't even regulate the sale of real weapons.

In the U.S. we have 25 percent of people incarcerated, but only 5 percent of the world's population. I assume some conservatives would call criminals job creators. After all, California correction officers earn more money than Yale graduates.

We squander $28,000 a year, per inmate, for federal prisoners. States vary, but in Nebraska it costs $25,500 a year. I've got to pull teeth to get a $5,000 Pell Grant to go to school. But if I raped, killed, or had less than a gram of crack cocaine, the government would invest five times that much on me.

He said he doesn't have all the answers. When in fact, he doesn't even have all the (honest) questions.

*controversy

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