500 is a good start on such a project. More will be needed for a perfect surveillance planet. Think about it: a set of behavioral algorithms could easily be developed and enforced through automation. We could have robot cops tied to a surveillance grid with no gaps anywhere on the planet, which act based upon rules which never vary, and which they cannot vary. We can be tied into as small a grid as the programmers see fit, and most of the programmers are psychopaths who aspire, themselves, to be brains in vats connected to everything, omnipotent, and omniscient.
The coffee has been brewed. It’s been on the hot plate a while.
But of course, Brittany Spears or Beyonce, or one of the Kardashians, and of course the PARAMOUNT NEED to “get rid of guns”, because, you know, kids who nothing obviously know more than the rest of us, or than those who study the history of humanity and its many tangible and nameable errors.