FIRST POSITION:
In the Radio Lab podcast “Eye in the Sky,” surveillance technology is the topic in spotlight. Surveillance technology can detect crime by taking simultaneous pictures that can cover up to twenty-five miles of the territory. Specifically, the ability that the inventor and creator of this surveillance technology Ross McNutt has for zooming the lenses of the twelve different cameras has provided an entry for modern police daily vigilance. Up in the sky, a helicopter caries twelve different cameras that as perpetually taking pictures. Each shooting of the twelve cameras combine to form one single picture. By reviewing the pictures from previous hours and present hours, the police get to “travel in time” to detect who did a crime, at what time, and where. For this reason, the benefits of the surveillance technology are innumerable. “Steep drops in crime” have been inferred and the properties “rise in value,” which plays as a cause and effect. Ross McNutt said it himself, “I want them to be worried that we’re watching.”

SECOND POSITION:
The creators and upholders of surveillance technology celebrate the fact that crime will be detected and attacked in a matter of minutes rather than in a few days or even never. They adhere to the ideology that “rising property values” and “steep drops on crime” are good enough excuses to have the privacy of innocent citizens be affected. The tendency to live a fast life obligates the police to have to answer a case in a matter of minutes, yet everyone is aware that such ideal world is not “real.” No matter if the people’s faces cannot be seen in detail from a distance, the fact of having an aircraft above the blue sky recording your everyday movement does not seem humane. Humanity by itself is not the only source of juggle, but also the economy. Having this surveillance technology has the cost of $6,000 every hour that the twelve cameras are taking pictures. If the purpose of surveillance technology is to aid the human race, their best alternative is not to destroy what makes humans be humans: their spontaneity and right to privacy.