The street finds its own use for the Internet of Things
Being the further and various adventures of The Guerrilla Infrastructure Team - a renegade bunch of digital anarchists and freedom fighters who mostly just wish things were slightly better and who would stop at nothing to find convoluted technical solutions to complex social problems. Their manifesto (such as it was) had paragraphs about the correct way to drink Club Maté nestled next to opinionated screeds about the proper use of tabs in various programming languages. They weren't hired guns, nor were they available to perform at weddings, but they had the habit of showing up exactly where their curious mixture of skills would be useful. Or, at the very least, entertainingly annoying.
For the last 200 or so years, the official transcripts of the proceedings of Parliament were recorded in Hansard. The documents were a treasure-trove for infogeeks. Every word ever spoken, in either chamber, on a panoply of subjects, was there for the harvesting. Some turned it into art - carving abhorrent speeches by long-dead bigots into stone and then dumping them symbolically in the sea. Others looked for unintentional haikus among the daily exchange of barbs. One hanger-on decided to train an AI to speak like an old-fashioned politician and then got members of the public to ask it about new-fangled laws. Disraeli had strong opinions on the proposed Digital Surveillance laws!
But the GITs had higher plans. Not content to merely report on the contents of the text, they wanted to deeply understand what was going on in the Mother of Parliaments. The plan was simple - they wanted to psychologically analyse every speech, every trade of insults, every off-the cuff remark in the historical records. They built up a comprehensive psychological profile on every MP and Lord that had ever set foot in the building. The GITs weren't looking for anything in particular, they just knew that applying technology to weird niches often provided interesting results. They "borrowed" some time on a university supercomputer cluster and started mining the brains of politicians for entertaining nuggets. What they found next will shock you!
