The airport of the future is the airport of today — and that’s not good.

https://papersplease.org/wp/2022/11/23/the-airport-of-the-future-is-the-airport-of-today-and-thats-not-good/

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A characteristic feature of almost all new or newly-renovated major airports in the U.S. and around the world is that they are designed and built on the assumption that all passengers’ movements within the airport will be tracked at all times, and that all phases of “passenger processing” will be carried out automatically using facial recognition…

These stories always seem like little islands unto themselves, but when taken as a whole paint a foreboding picture of the near future. And, indeed, as this article illustrates, the present.