Cameras and Tanks

        The SeeChange cameras in the Circle are the catalysts to all users losing their privacy. While presenting these new cameras, which are barely the size of a lollipop and can be installed almost anywhere without their knowledge, Bailey uses naive reasons to explain the benefits of SeeChange. "You want to go to Fiji but can't get there? SeeChange. You want to check your kid at school? SeeChange. This is ultimate transparency. No filter. See everything. Always." Although Bailey uses positive and innocent reasons such as travel and checking on loved ones, there is a much darker side to these cameras as well. People can be watched without their own knowledge, finding almost any person in the world is only a search away. Stalkers could use this tool to keep an eye on their person of interest, and the Circle is able to view any users or employees without their knowledge. These SeeChange cameras represent hundreds of thousands of people without privacy, who haven't even realized they've lost it.

         Within the Circle campus, Stenton (one of the Wise Men), has been working with rare aquatic species of octopus, seahorse babies, and a vicious shark. Stenton and the Wise Men gather with Mae and her transparency camera in order to capture an act Stenton has been planning: to put these animals all in one tank in order to see “how creatures like this cohabitate”, as Bailey explains it. However, Stenton has different plans, and this interesting event takes an unexpected turn. After peacefully adding the octopus and seahorse, Bailey is hesitant about unleashing the shark into the tank, and his caution is justified once the shark is added, and almost immediately goes after the octopus, and "ripped it's prey's tentacles one-by-one", and then "devoured the thousand babies, and the seaweed, and the coral, and the anemones". However, even after this, Stenton remains calm and admiring, as he “couldn’t get enough of the shark”. This situation symbolizes that trying to make the Circle co-exist with other companies and organizations such as the government is impossible. The Circle has become the shark of the technological world, and devour whatever may attempt to occupy its tank.