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But how many of those problems stemmed from the external requirement that those fleeing would have to commute back in 5 days per week, and for the most part all on the same 9-5 schedule? There's a version of moving away from dense urban cores that still accommodates community, transportation, public space, local necessities, commerce and small businesses, etc.

Apologies, surveillance-state apologists get me worked up. Things done in public or in other locations without "an expectation of privacy" are legally fair game for evidence gathering. Pointing a camera toward a home which may have open windows, etc. is not unless there is a warrant for that kind of surveillance.

I'd bet 1:1 odds that even if it were, ITS STILL ILLEGAL TO POINT A SURVEILLANCE CAMERA AT A HOUSE WITHOUT A WARRANT.

Kozmo was two full evolutionary cycles ahead of its time, and pretty much defined peak optimism for what the internet could weave together. Things since have been [much] bigger in effect, but the ambitions for tacking non-existant infrastructure seem petite in comparison.