Technocracy defines itself as the "science of social engineering", and Canon in China fits perfectly by demanding that employees smile to gain access into offices and conference rooms. This article properly calls this manipulation trend "modern-day Taylorism".
Technocrats invent because they can, not because there is a demonstrated need. Lip reading will take the same trajectory as facial recognition as it is pressed into service for surveillance purposes. Reading lips from a distance would obviate the need for microphones.
Massive storehouses of personal data on American citizens have been opened up like so many cans of sardines to be served up to the AI community for machine learning purposes. The $250 billion initiative is a windfall for Technocrats and a step closer to Scientific Dictatorship for Americans.
The King County Councilmember who sponsored the resolution hit the nail on the head: The use of this technology is invasive, intrusive, racially biased and full of risks to fundamental civil liberties." However, the shortcomings of facial recognition technology is seen as solvable with more technology.
Parents, beware. Virtual reality headsets with a brain-computer interface can permanently condition your kids brains to be unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy. Technocrats invent because they can, not because there is a demand to do so.
Microsoft's master Technocrat and President Brad Smith feigns concern over the arrival of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four but doesn't even hint at Microsoft's (and Bill Gates) causative role in bringing it about in the first place. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is of the same mind.
It's billed as "the largest expansion of corporate surveillance in human history." As a thoroughly Technocratic organization, if Amazon's were to rule over society, it would closely resemble Orwell's dystopian 1984.
IARPA, funded by taxpayer money like its cousin DARPA, intends to continuously collect all data about everyone in real time in order to let AI predict future incidents and events. Welcome to "anticipatory intelligence". IARPA is facilitating the rapid rise of Technocracy, aka Scientific Dictatorship.
Some scientists are now concerned that a day will come with super-intelligent AI programs will take on an automous life of their own. Already there are AI programs that perform learned tasks without the programmers understanding how it arrived at that state.
The question is not that this actually works, but that they believe it works. Belief and reality are two different things, and society is steeped in deception over what is real and factual. They should test to see if the AI works better during a full moon.