Technocrats armed with faulty science continue to claim that the sky is falling: overpopulation, global warming, deforestation, extinction of species, etc. The only possible solution offered is Sustainable Development run by themselves.
Although the inner workings of the NSA have been exposed in detail, it has not triggered reform or retraction, but rather, indignation. The Intelligence community has gone rogue on behalf of the 'deep state' and is in an adversarial relationship with the citizens of America.
Part of the rationale for comprehensive surveillance and AI analysis of footage is that "security guards get bored." Really? Should al Americans surrender liberty because security guards get bored? Unfortunately, this is typical thinking for the Technocrat mind.
Smart Cities are a key component of the full implementation of Technocracy, because they are an comprehensive expression of scientific social engineering. Technologies pioneered by Gates' project will quickly weave their ways into other existing cities.
Once standardized, these robots could roll off assembly lines like automobiles; their application on the battlefield will automate the killing of humans by an order of magnitude over WWI and WWII. Technocrats invent because they can, not because there is a need.
Weaponized drones in the hands of terrorists are frightening, but remember that it was the Technocrat-heavy military establishment that developed the technology in the first place. This has sparked a massive arms race throughout the world, and is naturally trickling down to terrorists.
At the end of the day, tt will be tech-saturated human Technocrats, not programs, that create the anti-human policies and outcomes that harm humanity. They will hide behind AI to escape responsibility, and everyone will think that the algorithms did them in.
Gov. Jerry Brown is panicked and incensed over Global Warming, demanding a forced global transformation. He states, "We need to wash our brains out and see a very different kind of world.” When Brown attended Jesuit seminary in his youth, they taught him how to meditate, apply self-mortification which included painful self-flagellation. Even as he admits that he wasn't transformed, he calls for the whole world to be transformed into a carbonless Utopia.
Read carefully: Obama's 2012 "Map the Human Brain" initiative is producing control freaks who want to achieve read/write access to the human brain. This includes reading, deleting, creating and altering memories. It would be the ultimate mind control mechanism ever created. Of course, it is over-hyped and likely impossible, but the fact that they believe they can do it is concerning enough.
Sean Parker has regrets that the original team "understood this consciously, and we did it anyway"; Facebook produces a continuous low-dose regimen of dopamine leading to addiction. Even though Parker and a few other early players are recanting their earlier days with social media, Mark Zuckerberg is not!