Premiering Wednesday, April 19, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, National Geographic Channel's Explorer: Science of Surveillance shows how millions of us expose ourselves everyday to a wired, digital world, where our lives can be watched, tracked and shared.
Drawing from a wide range of sources, including interviews with leading scientists, top law and legal professors, security directors, surveillance inspectors and venturesome embracers of the technology, EXPLORER presents a comprehensive and compelling look at this ubiquitous, yet often elusive technology.
"We have devices and payment systems, which leave behind little trails like contrails behind jet planes," says Eben Moglen, professor of law and legal history at Columbia Law School." And surveillance in the 21st century now means picking up those trails and following right behind us in our footprints, or even leaping ahead and predicting where we're going to be before we get there."
Viewers will learn about advancements made in facial and iris recognition; implanted electronic I.D. chips and backscatter technology, which can see through metal and show organic compounds, such as plastic explosives. Viewers will also witness the possibilities of 3-D imagery tied to global satellite tracking at a high-tech laboratory of the future.
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