This is a critical look into the internal turmoil at Facebook. Former employee Brian Amerige warns of a small minority of overtly belligerent 'social justice warriors" who are driving censorship at Facebook, and they viciously denigrate any critic.
These security robots are deployed in 16 states, and cost between $6 and $12 an hour to operate. They include multiple cameras, facial recognition, license plate readers, microphones and the latest AI technology. Every citizen it encounters gets automatically profiled and stored.
TN has warned repeatedly that China intentionally exports oppressive surveillance technology to the world, and that includes the United States. It is widely acknowledged that China is the 'perfect police state' and other authoritarian regimes willingly follow the leader.
Japan suffers a population problem as its older citizens age, and the answer is robots: big ones, little ones, ugly ones, sexy ones, functional ones, etc. Robots are showing up in just about every industry and application imaginable.
Fintech is the emerging financial system for Sustainable Development, and will permeate every phase and level of the financial world. Further, all nations of the world are embracing Fintech, from China to Europe to the entire Islamic world.
The only way to explain Google's affinity for autocratic China is that they are both steeped in Technocracy. That is, it isn't about money. Until Americans understand this evil ideology, they will be helpless to deal with it.
Technocrats are social engineers and not urban designers, but they somehow think they are more qualified to determine the fate of millions. If a tiny Mexican town can stop the Technocrat steamroller, then any city can as well.
"Populist revolts will be staged not against an economic elite that exploits people but against an economic elite that does not need them anymore. This may well be a losing battle. It is much harder to struggle against irrelevance than against exploitation."
This is DARPA's third major push to develop coordinated and autonomous drone swarms, up to 250 per swarm, to be used in urban areas. DARPA uses universities (Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Univ. of Colorado) and giant Tech companies (Siemens, Heron) to build their military technology.