Facebook is on a one-way trip to oblivion if its Technocrat programmers don't change their habit of manufacturing data out of thin air on users around the world. Inferred data is not real, verified data and it is often wrong.
Governor Cuomo has no problem with facial recognition reading every face in every car that passes by, and feeding the results into a massive database - all to catch a few criminals? This is a ludicrous proposition by a hard-core Technocrat with a bad case of dataitis.
Citizens say "No". but big money says "Yes". Money is flowing by the billions into China to fund facial recognition companies who operate freely there due to their warm embrace by the Technocracy-loving government.
Technocracy depends upon a digital society where every transaction can be tracked and analyzed. Cash prevents such tracking, and thus is being unilaterally removed. There has been no public request or particular need to destroy cash and so far, the public has not resisted the push.
Research 'breakthroughs' are arriving at an increasing frequency as scientists peel back the genesis of life. Technocrat scientists have little concern with the legal or ethical implications of their research, and will push the envelope until it bursts apart. It is a Transhuman dream to re-engineer humanity altogether.
The transhuman fantasy of downloading their brains into a computer network persists no matter what evidence to the contrary is presented. Although Ray Kurzweil was the first high-profile technologist to popularize this, many other scientists have since jumped on the bandwagon. Transhumanism and Technocracy are the twin creations of Scientism.