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... while it would suck to have swarms of governmental imago-stratellites counting the threads in your underwear with t-rays and muon-based sensors, spreading the tech far and wide would nicely short-circuit that problem.

Aside from the obvious (driving maps and such), other benign applications could be:

- beam to internet-enabled sunglasses and voila! Tourism without departure (virtual tourism to those of you who don't live inside my head)

- feed to tech-savvy blind people so they can navigate any city in real-time. On a smaller scale, it could even be used for individual buildings.

- automated Zipcars?

- enhanced gerrymandering? Teehee.