Additions to technocrats’ surveillance toolkit: Microfliers, human-computer networks and AI

 The flying microchip – developed by Korean-funded scientists at Northwestern University – is about the size of a grain of sand. It does not have a motor or engine. Instead, it catches flight on the wind – much like a maple tree’s propeller seed – and spins like a helicopter through the air toward the ground.

“Large, distributed collections of miniaturised, wireless electronic devices may form the basis of future systems for environmental monitoring, population surveillance, disease management and other applications that demand coverage over expansive spatial scales. Aerial schemes to distribute the components for such networks are required, and – inspired by wind-dispersed seeds,” the researchers

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