Bootlegging Script Research

From Warren Ellis' latest Wired column - iPhone/Cell phone maps:

■ Bruce Sterling’s comment about "Nazi layers" in his recent address to augmented reality (AR) company Layar comes true very fast, as the BNP releases a "British layer" that superimposes on your camera view of any British town a hyperlocal guide to population pressure, of "indigenous" British supposedly being "forced out" by what the rest of us call simply "other people". AR is self-selected mediation of the world. It lets us choose the glasses we want to see through. A nicked iPhone and credit card lets you buy criminal layers that establish where CCTV is densest in relation to regions with the wealthiest demographic, establishing the easiest predation. Soon enough, citizens of the digital cities are peering at everything through their AR phones, seeing not the city that’s in front of them, but the city they want to see.

Now imagine a map which changes with your GPS position to let you know where the State Troopers or county cops usually hide. Mpas which lay out the road ahead of you and where you can drop the hammer down and where you might need to ease up (or if you are running blocker for a truck where you can know you are going to get into the shit with law enforcement).

Yes, this is being used for a script I am writing.

The car itself is not modern, but when they hook into it is. Also Tweel tires. Localized EMP.

Yeah, this is going to be fun. Sneaking in futuretech/nowtech into my take on Smokey and the Bandit. I can't leave well enough alone.