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Blockchain can absolutely fix London’s gold trade — the tech works. But it won’t happen because the intermediaries profiting from opacity are the same people who’d have to adopt it. This isn’t a technology problem. It’s an incentive problem. And London’s centuries-old trust network is now its biggest liability.
The UK’s expansion of live facial recognition on the London Underground isn’t about catching serious criminals—it’s a beta test for normalizing mass surveillance. By trading anonymity for the illusion of safety, we are accepting a high-tech resurrection of pseudoscientific bias and the slow death of public anonymity.
Wayve and Uber are bringing driverless taxis to London this summer, but the tech race is a distraction. The real battle isn’t sensor accuracy—it’s liability. London’s medieval streets will force regulators and insurers to answer the ultimate question: who pays when an algorithm freezes in a roundabout? If the legal system fails, the autonomous revolution dies in the UK.