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Inside the Eye of the Machine: Shanghai’s Urban Brain and the Future of Surveillance

Inside the Eye of the Machine: Shanghai’s Urban Brain and the Future of Surveillance: Imagine living in a place where every single move you make is watched. Not just by a few cameras on street corners, but by an all-seeing, AI-driven system that tracks your every breath, your every step, and even judges you for how you toss out your trash. Sounds like dystopian sci-fi, right? But nope, this is real life in Pudong, Shanghai. Welcome to the “Urban Brain.” Now, before you brush this off as some far-off nightmare, let me tell you — this isn’t just a weird experiment happening halfway around the world. It’s a blueprint. And it’s creeping closer to the West than most of us realize.

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