City-based Technocrats are thrilled that Biden's recently passed infrastructure bill will lather cities with billions of dollars for smart city projects designed to light up the Internet of Things, provide ubiquitous surveillance and wrap in outlying areas that are currently out of reach of the surveillance state. Did you think that infrastructure spending was about fixing potholes and bridges?
The Fed in general is studying the plausibility of releasing a U.S. digital currency. It has said that a digital currency would not be intended to replace cash, in spite of a mountain of global evidence that cash is in the crosshairs for extinction. The United Nations has declared Fintech to be to financial system to support Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy.
With limitations to the menu of available drinks, Cecilia can dish them out faster than 4 human bartenders working non-stop. However, she won't lend a sympathetic ear or give advice to weary travelers. Alas, Technocrats solve problems that don't really need to be solved and mostly just because they can.