David Brin calls it The Transparent Society ‚– a Panopticon where everybody, not just the State, spies on everybody. Brin thinks this could be a Good Thing, in fact.

David Pogue astutely points out in the New York Times that, although it is clear nobody really wants to use videophones to talk to each other’s grainy faces, a killer app for mobile video might be realtime monitoring of webcams. Your child’s playschool. Your spouse’s bedroom. The gauges you are supposed to be watching down at the nuclear reactor while you are having a coupla brews at the local. Check out this list of public webcams you can access from Logitech’s new Mobile Video sofware.