Technocracy is encroaching to the point that it is taking over the pilot's seat in governments around the world. Representative governments and societies have little chance except to succumb. Violent resistance, such as Yellow Vest movement in France, will continue to resist.
The religion of Transhumanism is pervasive and resilient, judging by the continuous flow of stories every year. The technology to achieve their dream is always just out of reach and just around the corner. Alas, it's been that way for years, and yet they are no closer to immortality than they were 30 years ago.
War-minded Technocrats within DARPA have one answer for wiping out the enemy: autonomous machines. When DARPA first released Sea-Hunter, there were pledges that it was only for surveillance and not killing. The flip-flop was easily foreseen.
Technocrat engineers are attempting to disrupt education by measuring student attention/focus and giving 'teachers' a window into the mind. Not surprisingly, China jumped at the opportunity for mass testing on 1.2 million students.
This prediction comes from a Chinese venture capitalist based in China who is intent on investing huge sums of capital to make it so. Technocrats have no restraint when it comes to disrupting society, and worse, they have no answers on how to lessen the blows.
Facebook's AI censorship program tagged Franklin Graham but his large public profile forced an apology and reinstatement. How many other 'little people' have been banned that never come to the surface because they have no voice? As in China, Technocracy in America is blatantly anti-Christian and will increasingly be seen and felt.
Chinese Technocrats are experiencing isolation as Huawei is falling out of favor in the West due to its surveillance connections to the Chinese government. This will press China closer to military warfare.
Bike and scooter sharing startups around the world are dropping like flies as the public rejects the whole concept. It was a sly scheme to get people out of cars and into bike lanes. In San Francisco, scooters are set on fire and thrown in the ocean by fed up citizens.
What kind of human mind can revel in the fact that since 1980, the world has aborted over 1.5 billion pregnancies, which doesn't include infanticide committed over China's One-Child policy. Then there is the issue of reduced sperm count because of adverse environmental factors like pesticides, drugs, hormones, etc.
Different cultures give different answers, and the there is obviously no rigid commonality between nations. When AI programs are created, however, they must start with a moral judgement as to how their programs will behave.