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India’s smart glasses spread protest surveillance; AI’s trillion-dollar bet widens
Sep 23, 2026SOURCE: technologyreview.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, surveillance-capable devices plus AI monetization increases control surface area faster than rights can adapt.
Smart glasses enabled a creator to repurpose protest footage, signaling early surveillance acceleration. The wire frames AI investment as high-stakes—while the old system learns to use abundance as scarcity.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.