The Mechanics of Transformation—A Leadership Perspective
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
—Attributed to Leonardo DaVinci
A Bit of Perspective
Largely as a function of a concern over the influx of illegal narcotics (and secondarily to control illegal immigration), in 1997, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) deployed the first of several attempts to introduce technology as a primary means of border surveillance: the Integrated Surveillance Intelligence System (ISIS).
ISIS was a system of sensors and cameras: radar to detect objects, motion sensors, infrared sensors to detect heat, seismic detectors to monitor for vibration, and magnetic sensors to detect metals. In addition, the system relied on remotely ...
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