Over the past hundred years, humanity has made some of the greatest technological advancements in human history with the creation of things such as the automobiles, telephones, Internet and video. surveillance cameras. Although we think that these advances bring a change in human behavior and nature, in reality we have simply made things faster, for example before cars we had tanks, before telephone messengers, before libraries The Internet and before CCTV cameras, troops and spies who took the time to report what they saw instead of instantly reporting it to a database. In other words, behind every camera there is a living, breathing human, and like all humans, there are traits such as greed, fear, and lust for power. What we must consider, as a society, is that we are still governed by our fellow human beings and that they too share our imperfections and our lust for power. In all honesty, cameras are the beginning of tyranny. Although many might point out that cameras are necessary to maintain order and peace on the streets and could be used to do good for the community, even in small ways, such as controlling traffic, but it seems that this is a error, take for example a study that found that red light cameras caused more accidents "Barbara Langland-Orban, PhD, John T. Large, PhD, Etienne E. Pracht, PhD from the University of South Florida (USF) conducted a study on red light cameras in 2008. They updated their study in 2011. Langland-Orban, et al found that red light cameras (RLCs) increase the number of. intersection accidents by 28%” (Mike Franssinelli) What started as an attempt to make the roads safer ended up backfiring on cameras, now if that is true then why would a city keep monetized cameras. middle of paper...... able to walk the streets and be able to trust their police. What seems to be England's problem is that they are engulfed in their own Gordian Knot where they keep trying to solve a complicated problem with a complex solution, but all they really need is is a simple solution, perhaps putting more in the police and less in the cameras. If people just sit there and society does nothing, things can only get worse in the future and may very well have no effect on crime, but it could create a society where people start to living in constant fear of their government where they are constantly spied on, where the government is no longer a protector, but asserts itself as a god, just like many countries like China, Russia and Germany had done in the past. There is a famous quote by George Orwell when asked about the morale of 1984 he replied: “Don't let that happen, it's up to you..”