A major global tech corporation based in Japan, NEC, says that a global biometric system will help solve health problems as per United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #3, and touts "leave no one behind." The program will initially tested in Kenya.
With an overwhelming majority vote (45-2) , the NYC City Council drank the United Nations' Sustainable Development cool aid and committed its 8.6 million residents to the Green New Deal.
Since nobody would have time to run a nation in Silicon Valley, the logical solution for local Technocrats would be to create an app that would run everything for them. Indeed, an AI Technocracy would be their chosen outcome.
Yang is a mix of Libertarian and Democrat who is appealing to both camps. An 'enlightened technocracy' is comparable to Dr. Parag Khanna's 'direct technocracy' as proposed in Technocracy in America (2015). Yang promotes Universal Basic Income, Smart Meters, Medicare for all, carbon fees and legalization of drugs.
Steve Bannon pointedly reveals that the rise of China to be an existential threat to America is thanks to Wall Street and Western mega-corporation, which I have been saying for years.
It is deeply disturbing that courts are dropping criminal cases in order to shield the government's clandestine surveillance software that was used to bring charges in the first place. The Feds have created public-private partnerships in order to create a wall of secrecy to hide behind.
Humans already have a strong emotional tendency to transfer attachment to inanimate objects. If robot makers exploit this tendency, then robot owners may have no idea they are being led into an emotional addiction.
Technocrats at the FBI are driven to collect unending streams of data on any and all citizens. Any oversight or attempts to regulate are ignored or passively resisted. Other Intel agencies have followed the same pattern. In the meantime, Americans are being corralled into a Total Surveillance Society scenario similar to China.
Amazon hires 'reviewers' in foreign countries like Romania and India to listen to your interactions and conversations with Alexa. Guess what? They also have access to your home address! The potential for misuse is virtually certain.
The Department of Homeland Security is impervious to restraint on turning America into a microcosm of China with ubiquitous facial recognition systems. There is no justification to scan everyone to find the few.