Celebrity “sightings” are fairly common where I live in California. Gas station, grocery store, dog park, Starbucks — all around town there is a fairly good chance you’ll see someone you recognize from a movie or TV show. Just the other day I saw Robert De Niro, who was in Sleepers (1996) with Kevin Bacon. And at yoga class, I looked over and saw Reese Witherspoon, who was in Penelope (2006) with James McAvoy, who was in X-Men: First Class (2011) with…Kevin Bacon.
Ok, so some of you may be familiar with the joke, “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” which claimed you could connect anyone in Hollywood to Kevin Bacon within six steps. I was reminded of it when I began interviewing for SDM’s annual State of the Market series. The first installment of the four-part series looks at video surveillance, and when I started researching the market one major trend I found is that video is everywhere — connected to everything — and that fact is only exponentially growing.