Hello, it's me, the pearl-clutching, not sane, proselytizing, pseudo-intellectual author of this blog post. Happy to field your many insults/inquiries!
> and more importantly to coerce us into accepting the need for their existence in the first place.
What do you think should take the place of the police force?
Genuine question, no judgement. I’m from a country that doesn’t have such a divisive and militarised police force so find it hard to understand this point of view.
I'm not sure how useful the overlay data is for live analysis but I'm glad it's overlaid on the video as a record of state. For instance the latitude and longitude are of no use to anyone who knows what this is a video of, but it stops video being misrepresented as of another location.
Style wise, I think it might actually be beneficial to emulate sci-fi films to an extent. It depends on the film of course, but the designers of those user interfaces are actual designers with a cohesive idea of what they want to represent. The alternative can often be a programmer who has to conjure the opinions of a committee into a user interface without the input of a design specialist.
