A key theme in Spectre, the latest James Bond film that is currently showing in Malaysia, is the current capability of drones and blanket digital surveillance, and how it may render things like the 00 programme, revolving around lone agents in the field, obsolete – but at the expense of individual freedoms.
At one point, a character tells M (Ralph Fiennes), the head of MI6 and James Bond’s boss, that he doesn’t matter anymore.
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